Between Me and the Sea is about the feeling of living in a perpetual state of uncertainty. After the death of my husband earlier in life, I always knew the time to leave our family home would come, but I didn’t know when. For 35 years, home was “The Moorings”, an enchanted cottage at the intersection of land and sea. Like the house, I too was suspended between firm, familiar ground and feeling “all at sea”. In this series, I explore the idea of a “liminal space” between love and loss, the secure and the unknown, presence and impermanence.

Jennifer Blau, Leaving home, 2023, from the series Between Me and the Sea, archival pigment print on cotton rag, image courtesy and © the artist.