“Ephemeral States” considers the traces left by natural processes. Some processes last only moments (snow crystals disappearing as the temperature rises, ice melting with the thaw) and others take decades or centuries (river channels shifting, rocks eroding, glaciers retreating), often either too fast or too slow to be perceived. What remains in many cases is a surface that appears ordered: lines, repetitions, structures that seem self-organised. This self-organisation is not intentional, yet through our human eyes it becomes recognisable as a pattern. The work reflects on how geomorphological forces inscribe themselves into landscape, and how our sense of time and place is shaped not only by what changes, but by what we are (un)able to witness in its becoming.
