Everything & Not Anything

The albatross represents the girl’s alter ego (flight versus swimming).
Childhood influences, by way of a roller skate and a flipper, always remain a consideration.

Everything & Not Anything
Suspended in a quiet tension, two figures appear free of each other and yet connected: they orbit in their own worlds. Above, an albatross glides in improbable attire: one roller skate, one flipper—objects borrowed from childhood, mismatched relics of early wonder. Though whimsical, the bird’s presence is not accidental. It is the woman’s unseen twin, a drifting alter ego shaped by memories, expectations, and the odd inventions of youth.
Below, the female swimmer moves with deliberate grace, suspended in her own element—not water, but the idea of water. She is grounded, the albatross is airborne, their connection is invisible but absolute.

Everything & Not Anything explores the paradox of identity—how we become ourselves through fragments both profound and absurd. The albatross embodies freedom, burden, and the memories & distortions of growing up. The swimmer embodies the self in motion, navigating currents that are internal. Between them is the space where longing, memory, and possibility coexist.

Their movements speak to the way a life can be shaped by everything that matters, and by things that never should have. The work suggests that identity is not a single story but a negotiation between what lifts us, what weighs us down, and what we simply carry because it once made sense.

In their slow, unchoreographed dance, the albatross and the swimmer reveal the quiet truth at the core of the piece:
that we are always suspended between the selves we were, the selves we imagine, and the selves we manage to become - everything and not anything, simultaneously.