When I go out to the water I can feel you here with me


Nothing prepares you for the loss of a parent. Your whole world changes, yet everything stays the same.

Told through diaristic analogue photography, this work is a fragmented documentation of a period of loss and intensity. The relationship between queerness, grief, and nature is traversed by inhabiting the spaces and surroundings that now possess absence.

The camera itself becomes a tool for processing grief. By simply documenting a life lived, the work acts as an intimate portrait of a time marked by uncertainty and anguish. The act of turning to nature in moments of isolation is explored through the unflinching capture of a world shrouded in mourning.


When I go out to the water I can feel you here with me from the 2025 Graduate Exhibition at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IE.