Se(e)a in Touching

Seeing here is a form of touch. The work lays out a montage of the sea to cultivate a palpable roughness—spray, wind and pixel-grain rubbing against one another—so that perspective and movement fold back into the flatness and pauses of video. Within a single widescreen, differently framed fragments are set side by side; the frame becomes a threshold that stages distances, holds them in tension, and lets the gaze graze. The sound is derived entirely from the image itself. A small programme translates luminance, edges and drift into audio, so the picture writes its own score and vision spills into the ear. Rather than accompanying the images, the sound is their after-image in another register. The work invites the audience to handle the image with their eyes, to listen for texture, and to sense how seeing, touching and hearing share a common surface.