Split
Split captures moments of high-tension stillness, visualizing an animal’s adaptive duality as its presence fractures between awareness and defense amid human interference. Photographed during a safari encounter, the work confronts trespass as disruption, where wildlife is forced into visibility through imposed proximity and movement. The forest shifts from refuge to disturbed space, and the animal’s alert body reflects the cost of intrusion. The series emerged from recognizing how the human search for peace often manifests as disturbance. Rather than pursuing spectacle, the work observes how enforced visibility fractures natural rhythms and survival instincts. Heightened vigilance becomes a visual language of endurance, where stillness signals readiness rather than calm. By resisting conventional wildlife spectacle, the work positions the human gaze itself as the disturbance, questioning the ethics of access, observation, and entitlement within spaces designated as protected.