Cantabria (Spain), 2025

From the surface, the camera observes a female body suspended beneath the water. Her silhouette is faintly discernible through the folds of a plastic bag, as if the floating material merges with the skin. The image is murky, abstract, as if the gaze itself is submerged.
This piece emerges from the intersection of the intimate and the ecological. The figure, trapped yet diluted, embodies the vulnerability of bodies in polluted environments, where the artificial is no longer foreign but an inevitable extension of the natural. The bag does not cover; it envelops, caresses, adheres. There is no explicit violence, yet a latent tension exists. The beauty of the scene—its softness, its aquatic mysticism—coexists with a subtle discomfort.
The work speaks of plastic both as symbol and as symptom. A material designed to endure, it has infiltrated our landscapes, our seas, our lives. In this image, plastic not only contaminates but becomes aesthetic, almost sensual, creating an atmosphere that oscillates between the poetic and the dystopian.
The figure could be a real body or a specter, an apparition caught between two worlds. The water amplifies the sensation of suspension, of time suspended. As if this scene were not happening in a single moment, but in many layers of liquid memory.
This photograph proposes a look towards the depths: towards what floats, towards what sinks, towards what has already become part of the landscape even though it should not be there.

Charleen Capote