Uma Muthuraaman: WHEN THE WAVES REALISE THEY ARE THE OCEAN

We experience wellbeing in the analogue life – not digital, yet we tend to seek it digitally when we are not aware. Like the waves searching for the ocean – being it and not knowing it.

This realisation sparked an inner journey that led to this photo series. The photos in this series are a collection of seemingly unexciting moments – mundane moments, as we say. But for me these moments hold immense wisdom.

In the fleeting, there’s a forever;

In the mundane, there’s magnificence.

Where the Waves Meet the Ocean is an ongoing project.

Like the millions of waves that rise to new heights and fall every second, humans hurry and scurry in their daily lives, competing with one another to rise to new heights – to prove their singularity – rarely realising that we are a part of one consciousness. Like the waves in the ocean. The drops in the ocean – indistinguishable yet indispensable.

The photos in this series are patterns that are ubiquitous. Every photo is a story I would have missed if I were looking at my phone – stories worth telling and rewriting from a new perspective. The camera allows for a natural digital detox bringing me to the present moment.

In a fleeting second, I realise I am the wave looking for the ocean.