A Shift Toward the Record
For many years, my work unfolded through encounters with animals in the wild — moments gathered during travel, observation, and long periods of waiting. I wrote about some of these encounters, photographed many more, and slowly translated a number of them into artworks. At the time, I understood this simply as practice: moving through landscapes, noticing what revealed itself, and trying to hold those moments with care. Over time, a different understanding began to form. What I was witnessing was not only beauty, rarity, or even vulnerability, but something quieter and more constant — endurance . Animals continuing within landscapes increasingly shaped by human proximity. Movements adjusted. Timings altered. Paths remembered. Survival not as a single dramatic event, but as a continuous, attentive act. The name Collected Moments of Survival has emerged from this realisation. It is not a departure from my earlier work, but a clearer articulation of what has always been present with...