In 'Black Water Odyssey', I intended to create a work that journeys deep into the inky black depths of memory and time, punctuated by contrasting mother-of-pearl highlights. For me, the work is anchored in solace, melancholy, and a foreboding silence that paradoxically laments, transcends, and fades to black. I find beauty in this darkness.

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When gazing into the work, I zone out and experience transitional states: the water seems to turn to stone, then to a black seabed, then to thick black oil, whilst shining like stars in the night sky. There is a violent beauty in these meditations that seems to render the timelessness I’m searching for in photography. Water is a living, dynamic system that sustains life, culture, and memory.

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Photograph, archival pigment print

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Edition of 4 + 2 APs

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Kevin Eason (b. 1978) is a visual artist based in Switzerland, working across photography, painting, moving image, and mixed media. Eason's work explores time and perception through land and water, considering duration, memory, and environmental concerns. Guided by artistic vision rather than medium, his practice unfolds through The Time-Scraper Continuum, an ongoing enquiry into time and perception.

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Eason has maintained an active artistic practice since the mid-90s. He studied Photography at the University of Brighton and Contemporary Art Practice at the University of the Arts Bern (HKB). His work has been published by and featured in Kilimanjaro Magazine, BBC News, Artsted, and Arterritory, and has exhibited in the UK, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, and South Korea.

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