UPS AND DOWNS

Ups and Downs explores photography’s ability to suspend time. Using high-speed flash, the series captures objects—water balloons, marbles, paper balls—at moments just before rupture, descent, or impact. These gestures, too fleeting for the eye, are held in a visual stasis that reveals their quiet complexity. The work draws on the idea of photography as both a tool of observation and a mechanism of distortion. By freezing these oscillations, Ups and Downs invites reflection on the aesthetic of transience and the emotional symbolism of motion paused—rising, falling, and the fragile moments in between.