Roots

When I made this, I kept thinking about how we get the size of a person wrong. We meet someone at their surface: their face, their job, how they seem on an ordinary day. We treat that visible part as the whole. So I split the image at the water. Above it, a woman reaches toward the light, the part anyone can see. Below it, hidden, spreads a root system far bigger than her body. That hidden mass is the real weight of a person: years of memory, the people who shaped them, private thoughts no one hears. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han warns that we now demand everything be visible and exposed, but a person who is all surface has no depth left. The part that stays under the water is what gives someone their substance.

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