These images begin as photographs of koi and end as something else entirely.
Shot from above into dark water, the collection traces the point at which subject dissolves into form — where the fish become light against black, where ripple becomes pattern, where the overhead view removes all familiar orientation and leaves only movement and contrast.
The koi carry centuries of symbolic weight: fortune, perseverance, transformation. Dark Water sets that aside. What remains is purely visual — the yin and yang of bodies against dark water, the geometry of convergence and drift, the way light behaves when it strikes a living surface from above.
This is abstraction earned through observation, not imposed upon it.
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