Across my travels and the places I’ve called home, bodies of water have been a constant presence. Whether it’s the sunset waves of San Diego, the peaceful lake running through Austin, or the koi ponds of Los Angeles botanical gardens, I have seen the different facets of water, shaped by the time of day, the life it holds, and the velocity of its currents.

I wanted to depict these different personalities of water by bringing them to life in a mosaic of sea creatures. Each cutout piece is a photograph of water from a different place and time, pieced together to form a jellyfish and a kelp-forest seahorse.