Like two dancers
Some images are born of calculation, others of coincidence. Dancing Couple belongs to the second category. Two distinct collisions, photographed separately, that mirrored each other so perfectly it would have been absurd to keep them apart.
Two drops, two sessions, one single moment
Contrary to what the image suggests, Dancing Couple does not show a single collision. These are two photographs taken separately during the same session, which ended up forming a single work.
The first column rises, leans slightly, and seems to outline a movement. A few minutes later, another collision produced an almost identical shape, tilted in the other direction. Looking at them side by side on the screen, it became obvious: these two silhouettes mirrored each other, like two dancers face to face, each completing the other's gesture.
Assembly in Photoshop
None of these shapes have been altered. Each exists as it was captured by the flash, at its own moment, in its own session. The work in Photoshop consisted only of assembling them in the same frame, adjusting their relative position until the dialogue between the two silhouettes appeared natural, almost inevitable.
It's an assembly, not a fabrication. The encounter did not happen in the water. It happened afterwards, in the choice to bring together two moments that had nothing in common but their symmetry.
What the dance tells
Once reunited, the two shapes cease to be two independent liquid sculptures. They become a couple, a scene, a story that can be read in many ways: an embrace, a pas de deux, a separation that is beginning or ending.
It is this ambiguity that gives the work its title. Like two dancers suspended in their movement, frozen at the precise moment their lines respond most perfectly to each other.
Dancing Couple is available as a Fine Art print (310g) or Poster, in sizes from 30x45 to 80x120 cm. Each print is produced to order.