"The Upside-Down and the Edge"

Reflection and Echo Through the camera lens, a fleeting moment of clarity unfolds, blurring the boundaries between worlds. Blue skies and massive, soft white clouds look down, finding their twin image in the calm waters of the sea. The dark breakwater becomes a thin seam—the edge where two vast spaces meet. The reality above the water reflects within it, creating an upside-down mirror image: the depths of the sky lie beneath your feet, and the solid sand kisses the passing clouds. For a brief second, it feels like there is no more up or down, only a single space where each side reflects the other's face. "As in water face reflects face, so a man’s heart reflects the man." (Proverbs 27:19) This verse opens the image up to the secret of human connection. When we look at another person, we don't just meet them—we meet something of ourselves. The other person’s gaze can return to us parts of ourselves we couldn't see alone; whatever they bring to the encounter suddenly becomes a mirror to something already alive within us. This is how a reflection becomes an echo. Something in us reaches out toward the other, something from them returns to us, and a discovery is born in the space between. Not because both sides are identical, but precisely because each remains itself while becoming a mirror for the other. The secret of the edge—the edge is not an end, nor is it just a border. It is the meeting point where two spaces can draw close without erasing one another. The sky stays the sky, the water stays the water, yet they become mirror images. The separation doesn't vanish—it becomes the very place that allows for connection. The fisherman standing there is a symbol of a person who constantly finds themselves on these meeting lines: between the inside and the outside, the known and the hidden, between what we know about ourselves and what life reflects back to us through others. For the water to carry the image of the sky, it needs stillness. When the water’s surface is stormy, the sky is still there, but its reflection disappears. In the same way, stillness in a person doesn't create the reflection—it simply allows us to see it, and to embody it. What we perceive as an upside-down reversal turns out to be one complete whole. The sky and the water look at each other, and each discovers the other inside themselves. A similar thing can happen in human encounters: seeing the other, and within that sight, discovering something deeper within ourselves. The blessing hidden in this image is the blessing of encounter and connection—the ability to reach the edge and discover that it is not a place of parting, but the place where two can truly meet. To be with another with enough stillness to truly see them, and to remain open to what the meeting reveals about ourselves. To reflect, be reflected, and let something new echo within us. At the edge, where two worlds meet, the deepest connection is revealed. The edge does not divide—it is the point of connection. Photograph, Paper, Glass, Frame 40x60 cm 50x70 cm,60x90 cm, 70x100 cm