Amanece (Day Is Breaking)

These photographs are made while the town is still asleep, when the air feels clean with cold and salt lingers on my lips as I breathe. The ocean holds a steady hush, and the horizon becomes a narrow seam where night slowly gives way to morning.

I work at the moment when darkness loosens its hold and first light begins to reveal the world. The sky shifts quickly yet softly, unfolding into beautiful gentle pastel tones that appear almost without announcement, revealing.

Birds pass through the stillness, wings cutting overhead in quiet rhythm. Their silhouettes, solitary or scattered, move across the waking color like brief signatures, reminding me that motion can be gentle and that direction can rise from quiet.

At its core, this work is about beginnings, the ordinary ones offered again each day. Standing at the edge of Massachusetts Bay on Swampscott’s Atlantic shoreline, I feel the ground as a threshold. It is a time  to pause, to reconsider, and to step forward with the calm courage that morning brings.