A walking-based photographic practice exploring temporary alignments between stones and existing lines in the environment.
(ongoing photographic series, started in 2022)

Holding the Line: Stone Alignments is an ongoing photographic practice exploring fragile visual correspondences between a stone and its surrounding environment.

During repeated walks—often along the shoreline—I search for stones marked by natural lines, veins, or fractures. Held in the foreground, these markings are momentarily aligned with structures in the landscape: the horizon, the edge of a wave, color transitions in sand, architectural lines, or other geological formations. Through small adjustments of the hand, unexpected visual continuities appear between the stone and its surroundings.

The images emerge in-the-moment during these encounters rather than from pre-planned compositions. Working exclusively with a smartphone allows an immediate, bodily mode of production: the stone is held in one hand while the photograph is taken with the other. Gesture and image occur almost simultaneously.

These alignments—especially those involving the moving edge of waves—exist only for a brief instant before dissolving again. Slight shifts, imperfect overlaps, or subtle blurs remain visible in the photographs, emphasizing the fleeting conditions under which the images are formed.

Oscillating between object and abstraction, foreground and background begin to visually merge. What appears at first as a continuous line gradually reveals itself as a temporary alignment between two separate realities.

Holding the Line approaches photography as a practice of attention: a way of revealing brief moments of resonance between material, space, perception, and the body.

1. Stones & Waves

2. Stones & Landscape

3. Stones & Stones

4. Stones & Structures

5. Unexpected Correspondences

It all started with this stone in 2022:

I was fascinated by the wave-like white line and wanted to photograph it. When I held it up, I noticed the white waves in the background and decided to try an line up the stone line with the wave lines… and so this series was born.

Details:

Holding the Line: Stone Alignments
ongoing photographic series, started 2022
Currently consisting of more than a hundred images. (March 2026)
40 × 40 cm, direct print on aluminium composite panel, matte
first works produced in Namibia