This is a select from a larger series.
Frozen in Place is both a literal and a figurative title. The photos in this series were created during a period of significant burnout. In its simplest form, it is the beginning of a long effort in regaining my inspiration and creativity. I deliberately sequenced my images to freeze the water over time, depicting both the suspension of my creativity and the paralysis I feel when inundated by disordered anxiety. This experience is akin to feeling trapped under ice—in times of extreme stress, I always struggle to stay afloat, and enter into survival mode.
While floundering around for a solution to my burnout, I was advised by friends and professors to create photographs from simple surroundings and completely disregard if said photos were “good” or not. They urged me to worry less about the results and to focus more on the process of returning to making images. This gave me the idea to make photos from simple observations of nature as documentation of the changing seasons, similar to Edward Burtynsky’s Natural Order series.