Spirits of the water

Mexico, Palenque Jungle

2021

Spirits Of The Water is a series of Three 3 meter Screen Prints. In collaboration with Landscape Artist Phillippe Fleury.

This body of work marked a release of control within my enquiry. I began to explore movement itself — not as metaphor, but as method, an enquiry into the unknown. 

Water became both material influence and philosophical guide. I worked without a structural predetermined outcome, allowing gesture and pigment to respond beyond conscious control. The process required trust — not in an image, but in direction. A willingness to move without securing or imposing the result. 

Forms loosened. Edges softened. Composition became responsive rather than constructed. The work asked what becomes possible when we remove the internal limitations that seek certainty. 

Here, clarity was no longer approached through structural knowledge of past outcomes, patterns or through the acknowledgement of change. It emerged through pure presence.  

I became increasingly attentive to the subtle impulses that precede decision — the quiet undercurrents beneath conscious thought. The practice shifted toward listening. Movement followed sensation. Marks carried the residue of trust.  

Water holds no attachment to shape, yet its body remains entirely itself. In observing and working alongside its behaviour, I began to understand alignment not as control, but as attunement — an internal coherence mirrored externally. 

These works extend my investigation into perceptual thresholds by inviting an active, participatory, surrender. Energy moves. Form shifts. Nothing is held rigidly, yet nothing is lost.  

Clarity here is lived, through the courage to move without hesitation.