“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, itbeholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836)

To appreciate and understand, one must take time to reflect — find stillness, to pause.

Amid her endeavor of photographing over 100 contemporary Filipino artists using the wet-plate collodion process, Raena Abella takes a moment to present a collection of large seascape photographs of waves, each capturing an unrepeatable moment in the sublime and elusive nature of our world.

Her work echoes Emerson's transcendental philosophy of honoring the value of time taken to recognize the beauty and peace that nature offers.  Only by stepping away from the continuous rhythm of everyday life can one truly experience the fullness of the natural world.

Through her photographs, she invites us to pause, to reflect on the simplicity of our lives and the quiet place it holds within the vastness of the world and to appreciate the sacred stillness that exists amid our ever-changing, chaotic surroundings.