Private Oceans



As children we effortlessly transform our surroundings into fantasy worlds. For me, fairies lived in creek beds and ice on trees after a winter rain became crystal forests. Private Oceans began in the car wash. Enclosed, cocooned, it was the perfect condition for those lines to blur — the dashboard became the beach, water on the windshield the waves. Using my phone, I captured images from inside and explored them through digital layering, sometimes incorporating photographs I'd taken of the Pacific Ocean.

What emerges from this layering carries an element of mystery — by turns beautiful, disturbing, satisfying, unexpected. Through trial and error, the images reveal not just what I am drawn to aesthetically, but what may be hidden within them. Created from the crashing and merging of water, soap bubbles, foam, sea spray and sand, these images invite you back into the fluid imagination of childhood.