A ripple

A ripple on the surface of a body of water is a transfer of energy. Kinetic energy held in air waves moving as wind, or from the impact of a stone dropped into its surface, is transformed into tiny waves that spread out across the puddle’s surface.

This ripple breaks up, distorts and disrupts any refected image on a puddle’s surface but it also reveals its material make up - as a pool of fuid with depth and dimensionality. Light energy converted into a refection on its surface - that special kind of live index - becomes intertwined with the kinetic energy of the material rippling through it. As such, the ripple brings into temporal and physical coincidence the materiality of the puddle with the visuality of the puddle. It ruins the photographic acuity of the puddle’s refection, but it deepens its power as a material index for time.