Seascape nominee

'Twilight Dissolving into Silver' examines the sea as a temporal field shaped by the retreat of light.
As colour drains from the horizon, the ocean resolves into a muted, silvery expanse where perception slows and depth becomes atmospheric rather than spatial. A faint island lingering on the horizon softens the boundary between the real and the imagined, holding the viewer’s gaze in suspension. By attending to this reduced state of visibility, the series foregrounds the sea not as spectacle, but as a site where time, light, and perception quietly converge.

Mikyung Choi is a Korean visual artist whose photographic practice explores light, time, and perception through a painterly approach. Trained in painting, she treats the camera as a brush and light as a temporal and gestural medium. Her recent series examine moments when reality and reflection intertwine, and when time becomes perceptible through subtle shifts on water and horizon. Rather than depicting nature, her work constructs visual fields where duration accumulates and perception unfolds slowly. Choi’s photographs invite sustained looking, foregrounding restraint, clarity, and a contemplative engagement with the conditions of seeing.