Fine art underwater photography of women. My camera is the medium. Water is the vehicle. The human experience is my subject. Each image is worked on as a painter works a canvas, section by section, treating color, shadow, and light with meticulous precision. This process, which I call painting with light, gives each piece its distinctive quality. The result is work that transcends the photograph and becomes something closer to a painting.

Inspiration finds me twice. First, in a feeling I want to produce and embody before the camera is even on. Then in the woman I am about to photograph. Her presence, her story, her movement in water. She completes the vision I already felt inside. And when the result transports a viewer into this magical, otherworldly universe where light bends and gravity disappears, that is my confirmation that the feeling was real.

$25,000 would allow me to bring people who are deeply afraid of water, due to trauma, loss, or fear, into a supported aquatic experience and document their transformation. The images become their proof: of courage, resilience, and the feeling of being held by partnering with a Watsu practitioner. But beyond fear, many people enter water every day and never truly surrender to it. My work becomes a portal into that feeling. Everyone deserves to feel that supported. And my art is the invitation.