Densley Annastatia

“There is still sadness present in mono no aware, a sorrow at this transiency, of the loss of people and things that are precious to us. However, this melancholy is suffused with a quiet rejoicing in the fact that we had the chance to witness the beauty of life at all, however fleetingly. We are sighing rather than weeping.”

       - Tim Loman, Untranslatable Words: Mono No Aware, and the Aesthetics of Impermanence 

‘When The Water Stands Still’ is a study of the in-between, translating moments, spaces and emotions that are neither climax nor conclusion, but quietly carry both within them. An effort to notice the traces of time and stillness. Using photography of my surroundings to appreciate the impermanence, that blends the sadness of knowing something will end with the joy of having been there to admire that brief instant.

I aim to guide the viewer into that same pause, an invitation to notice what is quietly present before it passes. An open space which doesn’t hold an answer, but rather an appreciation of this openness.