• “Not with a sound,
• but a shimmer of air,
• light bending where hands once hovered.
• The iron hum falters,
• a hymn unraveling into wind.
• Beneath silt’s hush,
• a ripple lingers,
• adrift between devotion and dusk,
• only the slow ebbing
• of what was never meant to stay”

Rust and Ripples is a photographic series created between 2022 and 2025 along the shores of Lake Erie in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Ontario. In these postindustrial landscapes, the project explores memory, time, and human connection.

It draws quietly on Carl Jung’s idea of water as the collective unconscious, treating the lake’s calm surface as a mirror of shared memory and dreams. The empty docks and rusted factories evoke what Marc Augé calls “non-places”, transient and anonymous spaces devoid of clear identity. Yet each photograph imbues these forsaken settings with quiet meaning and presence. Guided by John Bowlby’s theory of place attachment, Rust and Ripples suggests that even in desolate, forgotten sites, a sense of longing and belonging endures.