2025 - Paris - Analog photographs

This series of black-and-white photographs is part of a collaboration between Bella Stern, a bio-designer working with mycelium. Shirley Thomas's black-and-white film photography series explores the in-between state of “not entirely alive nor entirely dead,” drawing a parallel to water, a symbol of emotional depth in many cultures. Here, ice becomes a metaphor for suspended human emotions: a state of latency where life continues, even when sensations seem frozen. The artist explore the subtlety of this state through micro-transformations found in the ice and ourselves, often invisible but always active.