Gillian Golan

The work is based on over a decade of photographing the sea with a phone – moments of composition and color; fleeting instants of passing experience. Selected images were transferred from the digital to the physical realm. When the plates and enamel reach the melting point, they vitrify, creating a tactile condition that transforms both texture and meaning. The heat blurs and deepens visual layers. The maker experiences a cognitive melting point, as decisions in framing, grouping, and placement shape the final composition. The pieces are presented as an evolving series that links water and sky, sand and sea, darkness and light, capturing fleeting moments and fixing them in permanence.

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