'You can't enter the same river twice' explores the concept of impermanence, the futility of becoming and the landscape as an agent of transformation.
An unknowable rhythm unfolds, forms bend, break, emerge, dissolve, neither whole nor undone. Traces persist within the drift: shifting patterns, unfixed entities, hidden layers of impermanence lie beneath.
Nothing holds. Nothing stays. Growth and ruin intertwine, a pulse of becoming and unraveling, between absence and presence, the landscape is in flux. The surface fractures, shifts, unseen forces, all caught in the current, fleeting, surrendering to the flow—panta rhei.
These ideas, rooted in the work of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, are conveyed through photographic metaphors that explore the moment just before a transformation—the point at which a form is clearly in transition, not yet settled into its new state. The landscapes bear the marks of geological time, which operates on a scale that makes human experience seem fleeting. Erosion, sedimentation, the collapse of a shoreline into the water, the emergence of a sandbar: processes that occur without witnesses, that have been occurring long before photography existed as a medium to capture them.
The series asks what impermanence is like when it is the subject rather than the condition. Most landscape photography is based on the assumption that the landscape is stable enough to be framed; this work is based on the opposite assumption, arriving at scenes where the frame itself seems uncertain, where the edges dissolve into water or light rather than resolving into sharp boundaries.
