Where the Sea Holds Us (2026)

The Tomb Tower at Château de La Napoule, Mandelieu-La Napoule, Côte d’Azur, France

This installation traces how connection persists across separation, time, and unseen space.

Developed within the tomb tower during the La Napoule residency, the work is positioned above the tombs of Henry and Marie Clews, whose remains lie apart in anticipation of reunion. Conceived as a portal, the installation emerges from a vision of passage—across distance, between bodies, and through time.

A reflective surface, activated by seawater, forms a shifting threshold between absence and presence, between what appears and what withdraws. Within this space, a quiet gesture of transmission is embedded—extending across temporal distance, toward Henry and Marie, and the possibility of their reunion.

The installation unfolds not as a narrative, but as a system: dispersed elements held in relation through reflection, moisture, and light, forming a shifting field of connection across the space. Handmade seaweed paper—prepared in advance of the residency in collaboration with my husband, Adrian—extends this field, introducing marine material into the space and carrying a quiet continuity between bodies, environments, and memory.

This work continues an inquiry into distributed forms, where connection persists without proximity and a whole emerges through fragments. It gestures toward ecological systems, where relation persists beneath the surface of the visible.

Images courtesy of Laurent Barnavon, La Napoule Art Foundation (select images)