lilli waters

 The river is always moving — alive, never the same.
Like the body, it flows with memory, change, and resistance.

Body of Water explores the relationship between the feminine form and the natural world, drawing on the symbolic and spiritual power of water. Our language reflects this deep connection: we speak of ebb and flow, of fluid identity, of testing the waters. Water holds us. It mirrors us. It reminds us that survival depends on surrender.

This series was photographed during the height of the Australian bushfires, some images made in Tasmania as fires burned just across the river, the others in Gippsland beneath the haze of nearby blazes. Smoke clung to everything: the air, our skin, our lungs. Towns were being evacuated. The river, despite its beauty, carried the weight of collapse.

These images honour a quiet communion with nature, a reconnection with the elemental. They speak of a desire to return to something unmade, to shed the restrictions placed on women’s bodies, and to move toward a more instinctive self.

Though the landscapes are often dark and foreboding, the figures are not lost. They are held by the water, enveloped by the forest, nourished by a world we are on the verge of forgetting.