This series of photographs is an exploration of the forms that exist briefly before the rational mind and its protective familiarity take control, those fragmentary, elusive and semi-visible aspects of experience. The figure, captured in all of these images, is a conduit for the short chaos that precedes daydreams, moments of unease in nature, narratives that struggle with articulation.

The title of this work comes from a story in which the intangible and the imaginary shock wakeful existence. Gradiva then is an accidental muse, a woman named after the god of war walking into battle, who steps between the real and the imaginary.