Out to Sea is a project developed from a recurring moment observed along the coast in Donegal: people stopping at the edge of the land and looking out to sea.
What interests the artist is not only the gesture itself, but what it holds. A pause within a fast-moving world. A moment of stillness where someone is quietly thinking, facing something vast and unresolved. The title plays on the sound of sea and see, linking the physical landscape with the act of looking, and suggesting the uncertainty between what is seen and what is understood.
She is drawn to these moments because they feel ordinary, but charged. They are not staged or constructed, yet they contain something that cannot be fully accessed without photographing them. The camera becomes a way of noticing what is otherwise overlooked, or too easily passed by.
The work is made through observation rather than direction. She returns to the same gesture repeatedly: figures turned away, positioned at the edge of land, looking outward. This repetition is central. It creates a shared language between strangers, formed through distance and similarity rather than interaction.
Working with 35mm analogue photography supports this approach. The process slows the act of looking and introduces a delay between seeing and knowing. This distance is present in the images themselves, where meaning is not immediate but gradually formed.