Inside a Fish

Kieran Scott

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"Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips."
- Jean Giraudoux -

When I look at a snow capped mountain, a boiling angry alpine river or a fumarole breathing burning vapour - I see something vital, temporary, beautiful and essential. Something we can never possess. It passes through our hands, stopping for no one and nothing - constantly nurturing, feeding and bringing life. Transforming itself, from solid to liquid, liquid to vapour, preforming a trick no other substance on earth can preform.

And that trick is the thing that captivates me - the temporary landscape, a delicately choreographed dance over brutal shards, an organic patina across glacial milk or the flowing velvet drape of fresh snow, it might be there for a second - maybe - never longer and never the same twice.