The video piece Water Ceremony  represents a private act of healing. I mirror a process of moving out of a trauma reaction into a state of more peace and well being.  Using a 360 camera, I alter the familiar scene of walking on the beach. The lens becomes a portal creating a landscape that feels unearthly but also intensifies the beauty held within it. Water has always offered me a place to play, a refuge from the world and a fascinating aesthetic exploration of nature. I love the way light refracts and reflects off water, its shine and shimmering movement. I return to it again and again as a material and for solace and transmutation. Calm lapping water, the sky as portal and path, shadows keeping me company: all Invite me to focus, a study of perception, on the beauty in everything around me. During the pandemic, the wildness of nature was a vital, studied, beloved connection for me.