Hypnotic Bubble Trails in Ocean Waters

The Ocean Bubbles series draws from underwater studies in which air, water, and light intersect to form transient abstract structures. Emerging from the artist's broader underwater practice, these images focus on bubbles as both physical phenomena and visual metaphors, suspended momentarily before dissolving.

Each work records a brief event in which buoyancy, pressure, and surface tension converge. Light passing through liquid and air generates shifting forms that resist narrative interpretation, instead producing images marked by ambiguity, rhythm, and quiet instability.

Rather than depicting a subject, the series observes a condition: the appearance and disappearance of form within an environment defined by motion. The resulting compositions evoke dreamlike qualities, where scale becomes uncertain and perception is unanchored from fixed reference.

Photography operates here as a means of inquiry rather than illustration. By isolating fleeting underwater events, the images seek to disrupt passive viewing and invite heightened awareness, using abstraction to engage questions of presence, impermanence, and attention.

Produced entirely in-camera, the Ocean Bubbles works form part of The Legacy Collection as archival studies of ephemerality, offering a distilled examination of how momentary physical phenomena can register as enduring visual experience.

All images in this series are available as rights-managed works for editorial, institutional, and creative use.