Chapter II On Stillness as Method
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Four observations

What remains when motion is removed

01

The horizon is not a subject — it is a measure.

A single line, always at the centre, lets every other tone be read against it.

Plate I · Boden Sea, 1993
02

Long exposure is patience made visible.

Two to three hours per frame; the waves average themselves into a single luminous surface.

Plate IV · Sea of Japan, 1997
03

Grayscale is wider than colour.

From near-black graphite to near-white silver, the print holds gradations the eye barely registers.

Plate VII · Tyrrhenian Sea, 2002
04

A photograph of water is a photograph of time.

What appears empty is hours of weather, light, and breath accumulating on the plate.

Plate XI · English Channel, 2011
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