It didn’t mirror me. It replied in its own shape.
This image came out of an exercise in listening.
At the OneBeat Borneo residency, we explored act and response—not just through music, but through presence. What happens when you offer something to a place, and wait—not for a reflection, but for a reply?
I took this photo by a quiet pond after a day of sonic experiments with Rully Shabara and other artists. They spoke about sound not as a message, but as a conversation—between people, spaces, and things we usually forget to notice. That stayed with me.
When I leaned over the water, I wasn’t expecting beauty. But the reflection moved differently. The branches didn’t just mirror—they shifted, blurred, reached. For a moment, the pond felt like it was responding. Not clearly, not loudly—just enough to be felt.
I didn’t go there looking for a face.
But maybe the land shows us one when we’re finally quiet enough to see it.
