Ninety Seconds, 2020

“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.” -  Marcus Aurelius

These images, collectively titled Ninety Seconds, were captured in a pool near my home during the same period of time as their title. A small waterfall disrupted the water, the movement creating occasional ghost-like reflections.

I spent the time there in the same spot, photographing while contemplating annoyance at restriction from a temporary injury. The pool served as a creative outlet and a mirror of my own confinement.

The repetitive yet disparate images of the water’s ebb and flow visually illustrate ninety seconds of time passing. The time amount of a chemical response processes in the human body, from reaction to something in the immediate environment to emotional response.

As the ghostly images in the water were swept away, new and different images were created. Thus, illustrating the certainty, with time, frustration, and confinement would be swept away, and new emotions would take their place.

In my work, I seek to narrate unseen beauty in my immediate environment, often through reflection and repetition, to create a story, representation of memory, or emotional state.

 – Jenny Carey, 2020