The Between Tides series explores how moving water continually reshapes visual perception. Reflection is the optical condition through which the series examines the instability of the visible world, producing 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 made by the water as the painting’s primary subject. Close cropping allows these reflected forms to retain traces of their source while acquiring an independent visual presence. 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 governed by the movement of the water. The abstraction in these works originates in the behavior of reflection itself: the visual order is generated by water, then selected and reconstructed in paint. Painting gives these transient optical events material duration. Each canvas holds one configuration within an ongoing process — between one state of the water and the next. The reflected image acquires its own coherence and visual presence, inviting the viewer to experience perception as an active process of interpretation.