This series presents three photographs taken from a larger body of work captured along the Geelong foreshore during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Once a site of constant movement, gathering and leisure, the foreshore became temporarily suspended. It remained architecturally intact yet socially absent. The images document this unusual stillness through views of public infrastructure, water and built form without a single figure in sight.

To reflect the surreal quality of this period, the film was altered using a film soup process, submerging it in dish soap, lemon juice, and salt prior to development. This intervention introduced unpredictable pink and purple tonal shifts, distortions and textural irregularities that could neither be fully controlled nor replicated. The process mirrors the instability of the time itself, when familiar environments felt estranged and dreamlike.

For me, anomaly suggests both disruption and poetry. It is an outlier that unsettles expectation while revealing something newly perceptible. Lockdown rendered public space unfamiliar, transforming bustling landscapes into quiet and suspended scenes. Through analogue experimentation and a willingness to relinquish control, these works embrace uncertainty as a generative force and invite viewers to reconsider a shared experience through a different lens.

The series reflects an early moment in my architectural journey, when I became increasingly aware of how context, light and circumstance can fundamentally shift the perception of space.