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The island is sparsely populated, almost austere, and that quietness made observation feel necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\r\n\u003Cp>The rocks on the shores of Flatey were covered with thick and textured accumulations of a type of algae that I had never seen before. The colors and the immensity of these piles were overwhelming. They were aesthetically beautiful, yet I couldn’t explore the shores nor go swimming without stepping in and around the vegetation. Along the shoreline, I kept returning to the algae. Dense, heavily textured, vivid in color, they were unlike anything I had seen. Their formations spread across the landscape with an authority of their own. But they also made it harder to move, harder to reach the water. I was drawn to them and held back by them at the same time, and that tension sharpened my awareness of my own body, the space around me, and how the two related.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\r\n\u003Cp>Video & photography became the way I worked through what I was experiencing. It allowed me to slow things down and turn a physical encounter into something more contemplative, a study of perception and place. I started thinking about algae not just as a visual subject but as a biological model. They do not root. They use holdfasts as temporary anchors, cluster together, drift, and form networks that carry them across the ocean. When I understood that, something clicked. I recognized my own experience in theirs: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fdirectory.weadartists.org\u002Fartist\u002Famorosg\u002F\">migration, displacement, and an identity\u003C\u002Fa> that does not belong to one fixed location but moves, adapts, and builds connections along the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\r\n\u003Cp>For this video, Rootless Algas, the work intends to express certain feelings of isolation and to convey characteristics of the actual experience, rather than to explore or describe. 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