What a wave can reveal
There is a moment as the wave pulls away from the shore (so fleeting it’s already forgotten just as it flashes before your eyes) when the water is calm enough to capture the shadow of some tree branches dangling above.
You see their contours dissolve, like ink poured on water, and, for a second, you think you can see the shape of a heart emerging, its surface veins exposed, each beat pushing the waves back, out into the ocean …
You wouldn’t know it’s there, hidden under the current.
Then you think that this sudden apparition only makes the waves more determined to return to the shore. The ocean knows its own power, but does it know the power of a beating heart? You wonder.
The camera is poised just at the right angle, waiting for the right moment to expose — to reveal — the heart at the centre of things.
