La Sylphide is a fine art series that explores grief as a physical and emotional state rather than a linear process. The work reflects moments of descent, isolation, and gradual reorientation following loss, focusing on what happens within the body when words and narratives fall away.
Created in an underwater environment, the series uses suspension and reduced movement to mirror the experience of being held in grief. The body appears withdrawn, heavy, and contained, at times protected by isolation, at others pressed by it. Water becomes both refuge and resistance, intensifying breath, touch, and the awareness of one’s own presence.
Rather than portraying mourning as resolution or release, La Sylphide lingers in transitional states. The images move between sinking and rising, exhaustion and fragile alertness, revealing how self-protection can slowly become suffocating. In this moment, survival requires a shift: the recognition that part of the self cannot be carried forward.
The series does not depict loss itself, but the quiet transformation that follows it — the act of letting go, not as closure, but as a necessary condition for continuation.
