LIMINAL STATES, Research-based ongoing series, 2023–present

In this ongoing series, I continue exploring how water and light shape our perception of transformation. Emerging from the world of Protean Visions, these works trace the subtle thresholds between what we see and what we sense.

It is a quiet investigation into process and metamorphosis, where I experiment with mediums, rediscover images, and push the boundaries of my own practice, allowing intuition and material to guide the direction of each new piece.

The process behind this series is still evolving.

I continue to experiment with the materials I place in water — foil, mirrors, flowers, netting, fabric — each object refracting light differently, creating new textures and distortions. I work with lasers, LED lights, torches, and strobes, letting the light sculpt the water, turning it into a constantly shifting stage where matter and reflection fuse.

I am experimenting with printing on brushed aluminium, allowing light to become an active part of the work, shifting its tone and texture as the viewer moves. This material gives the illusion of fluidity, as if the surface itself were alive — water reflecting light back at you, constantly changing with each glance.

For now, it is my favourite medium. It carries the same luminosity and sense of movement that define my underwater imagery, yet it also introduces a new physical depth. Many of the works I’ve sold to collectors have been printed on brushed aluminium. It feels like the most natural extension of my language.

I want to see how far an image can stretch before it stops being a photograph

…one of the pieces even carries a layer of oil paint applied directly over the photograph. I’m still unsure if it belongs here, but it feels like a necessary detour, a way to test the boundaries between the photographic and the painterly.

***G.E.L., 2023, 70x105 cm, print on aluminium dibond***
G.E.L. captures the body in a moment of suspended yearning — a breath held between past and future, desire and memory. Beneath the surface, time thickens. Colour and water bind the figure in a luminous freeze, like emotion preserved in liquid glass. The title — an acronym for Gelled Eternal Longings — suggests both scientific preservation and emotional permanence. It speaks to the way longing lives in the body: not as fleeting sentiment, but as something textural, physical, and enduring.

This work (G.E.L.) found unexpected appeal. Three editions have already been collected in the UK, France, and the US. It was there right from the beginning, created during one of my first underwater shoots, but it went unnoticed.

That’s why I often return to my archives — every time I do, I see them differently. My visual language evolves as I move deeper into the art world, and that allows me to reimagine earlier works, to notice what I once overlooked.

Over time, I’ve done sixteen underwater shoots — each one like a different emotional state. Revisiting them now feels like revisiting past versions of myself. Some frames that once seemed incomplete suddenly make sense. This act of returning and re-seeing has become a vital part of my creative process.

This project didn’t begin as an exploration of materials — it began as an exploration of myself. Each underwater shoot became a quiet act of self-discovery. Every submersion gave me purpose, a reason to keep searching, to ask what lies beneath the surface, both literally and within.
Sometimes I entered the water with a specific image in mind; other times, I surrendered to the environment, letting light and movement lead the way. Yet every time, it was the same burning curiosity that pushed me forward — stronger than the cold, stronger than the physical exhaustion, stronger than doubt.

Sometimes I think water remembers us better than we remember ourselves

Through these moments, Liminal States became a map of transformation — a process of liminal rebirth. It’s not only about the fluidity of form, but about the fluidity of being: how we shed, evolve, and continue searching for new languages to express what can’t be said in words.

This work remains open, unfinished. I want to keep it a space I can return to, to add new thoughts, new layers, new ways of seeing. Perhaps the act of returning again and again is the work itself.

Below you can find a gallery of images from this ongoing series. Each piece can be printed as a limited-edition artwork, created to order and individually finished — a continuation of the same dialogue between water, light, and transformation.