“PROTEAN VISIONS” PHOTO LONDON 2023

Protean Visions is a metamorphic series of twelve images. The key concept behind this series is a focus on the mutable nature of water and light. Etymologically, the protean originates from the ancient Greek myth of Proteus, the prophetic, shapeshifting, God of elusive sea-change. As the collection’s title suggests, Flit’s series speaks to this very concept of liquid metamorphosis where her vivid imagery pays homage to playful oceanic whimsy.

Flit plays with the elemental fluidity of light and water, unearthing the subjective and reflecting it through the looking-glass. Her subjects flow through the visual landscape with weightless ease, as the artist’s imagination opens entryways and passages into the unseen.

Of her own work, the artist says it revolves around the concept of ‘timelessness’; according to her ‘there is no young or old water. It’s an arcane concept of the human mind, the closest concept to infinity we can materialise in our thoughts’. She believes water is a medium of infinite reflections and perceptions, and her goal as an artist is to document its choreography of light.