I went to the wetlands in search of vanishing moments — a ripple on the water when a turtle feeds just below the surface, or a drift of fog disappearing with the rise of the sun. It was the autumn of 2025 and I was losing someone close to me. These images from that time are minimalist expressions of essence, absence, and mood.

The title of the series comes from a quote by Guillermo del Toro, “Presence is fleeting. Absence is eternal,” spoken about the passing of a loved one. His observation relates as well to our subliminal experience of photographs. Things or people in the pictures we keep are both there and not there, reminding us of what endures in life as well as what we have lost. A photograph is a mystery — absence becomes a  presence, as in grief. I find this paradox oddly comforting, maybe because loss puts us in touch with something eternal, something beyond ourselves. I made this body of work in that same spirit — as impressions of the natural world both vanishing and everlasting.