This body of work grows from a period of introspection, a moment of looking inward while honoring a past that continues to shape the present. The del Oro lagoon invites me to slow down, to listen, and to see. In its still, reflective surface, I find the calm needed to turn inward, toward clarity and the unseen.

The deep interconnectedness within the lagoon guides the work –– reminding me that every moment, creature, and breath is part of a shared thread. It’s quiet life reveals itself in small gestures: egrets that teach patience, palms that speak to endurance, clouds that show how change carries its own continuity.

As John O’Donohue wrote, “We feel most alive in beauty”. In the lagoon’s transient calm, I rediscover both the world around me and the one within. In that rediscovery, there is a sense of homecoming.