"It's a blazing day outside and the body screams for ocean. Cool and crystalline relief as salted water evaporates and skin dries firm like a mud mask. Repetition of hot - cold becomes an experience quite sublime, cooled bared midriff meeting baking concrete. Waterlogged eyelashes squint through the glare, sun flares meeting water droplets to form tiny rainbows across my view. It was just such a lazy day and I started to look at all things through these salty, watered eyes. Is what we see really there, or do we conjure illusions? Like the way your mind tells you everything is in full focus when it really isn't all at once, or when it fills in detail in the shadows of the trees when you’re walking in the dark. The watery renditions of the original scene are more truthful, more accurate in recollection than any clear, more informative image would have provided. And so began the study of how the human mind recollects and remembers scenes and moments. Not with clarity, but always with a blurred, distorted wonder..."