…Exhibiting a girl’s natural harmony with the sea, centering around concepts of ritual, repetition and sanctuary…

‘Girl: Float, Breach, Submerge’ is an installation exhibiting a girl’s natural harmony with the sea, centering around concepts of ritual, repetition and sanctuary. Originating as an underwater film, EPS free-dives into amniotic suspension with camera and captures her subject performing sequences as directed, while manipulating in-camera effects of light and focus.

The evolution of the process continues as film stills and next, with a charcoal pencil, EPS sketches her interpretation of the movements on paper, which she then transfers into final outputs to be cut and laminated into the three acrylic figures. Each figure encapsulates loose raw fluorescent pigment, a hue mimicking the singular color captured on film through natural filtering of light and effects of the distance between EPS and her subject while underwater. 

The results are a culmination of discovery and the multiple iterations of subject, movement and expression. Exhibited at A+D Museum’s annual Come In! exhibition Les Femmes, 2012.