Transition Protocol

Two patterns

Transition Protocol began with two photographs that were never meant to meet.

I took the first in April 2025, in a friend's swimming pool in Comporta. I was fascinated by the shifting patterns of light and water and photographed them without any particular project in mind. A few months later, while trekking in France, I photographed the cracked surface of a dry riverbed. Again, it was the pattern that caught my attention.

Water and the absence of water.

The images came from different places and different moments, but when I put them together, they felt strangely connected. Both surfaces seemed to be in transition — constantly shaped by forces that were either present or had disappeared.

I decided to print them on fabric and suspend them in space. At first, I thought the relationship between the two images would be enough.

It wasn't.

The image refuses to stay still

I introduced airflow into the installation.

The fabric began to move, fold and turn. Parts of the photographs disappeared and returned. The images overlapped, separated and continuously rebuilt themselves.

The movement created a kind of analogue glitch — a physical disruption of the image that could never repeat itself in exactly the same way.

I often photograph transitional states and then fix them inside a photograph.

With Transition Protocol, I wanted the transition to continue after the image had already been made.