"The project is a multi-angled investigation of water. It is an investigation firstly of what water really is and secondly an investigation through the method of myself being in the water. In expansion of being in water, the project is about personal relationship or connection to water. In this project, there is an investigation of different forms of water, the forms focused on were the sea, a swimming pool and bubbles found in water.

The drive of the project comes from a personal enjoyment from being within water. These include activities in water such as regularly swimming, aquafit and the project developed to other “fun” ways that we can feel adrenaline from water such as jumping into water and water slides. The experiences with water in this project are either physical or emotional. To start with, physical in swimming and how swimming engages all of your body. The emotional categorises down into calm and adrenaline. As a sensitive person, this sensitivity is used as an approach to investigate rigorously. Part of the project is a curiosity about water itself: a complexity and mystery. The main fascinations of water focused on are a knowing that it is something greater and that an object can float on water so we can feel supportive when lying on it. Water has lots of juxtaposition.

Ultimately, the project is exploring interaction which has influence of varying chance between water, light and colour and their influence in texture, shape and edges: (partially, break, merge, align, dissolve). Then, it is also about how my body changes the water and then how water changes my body. There is a recognition of this bi-directional communication. It is about the start to end of contact with water, including becoming immersed in water and the end of this, losing water.

The project tries to push what can be seen and created, for water to appear differently, seeing phenomena in the normal."

Charlotte Dobson is an interdisciplinary photographer.