The 'Between Tides' series explores how moving water continually reshapes visual perception. Through reflection, the paintings examine the instability of the visible world in images held between recognition and abstraction. Water transforms architecture, landscape, sky, and light into a shifting field of relationships. Familiar forms dissolve, overlap, and reorganize across the surface. In many paintings, the source of the reflection lies outside the frame or becomes difficult to identify, leaving the image formed on the water as the primary subject. Closely cropped, these reflected forms retain traces of their source while acquiring a visual presence of their own. Water functions as a natural optical instrument, generating fleeting structures of color, light, and movement. Ripples stretch contours, compress space, merge colors, and redirect light into patterns that follow the water’s movement. The abstraction in these works originates in the behavior of reflection itself. Water generates the visual order; the artist selects and reconstructs it in paint. Painting gives these fleeting optical events a lasting material form. Each canvas holds one configuration as the water moves from one state to the next. The reflected image acquires its own coherence and visual presence. Looking at it becomes an act of interpretation.