Born as Water

Born as Water is a video piece that uses footage of rock, water, and trees. These elements are not symbols to decode but are rather direct evidence of something we already sense but keep forgetting: meaning is not a destination we arrive at, but a quality of attention we bring to what's already here. We spend most of our lives constructing narratives to make the world legible, to feel like we're getting somewhere, and in doing so we skip past the very texture of being alive. Born as Water suggests that the meaning we're looking for might not be something we find but something we stop obscuring. This meaning has been present all along in the unedited, unhurried surface of the world, and that the real work isn't searching but learning to look without needing what we see to add up.