This project began with a simple seasonal observation. Initially, I intended to document the transition from winter to spring, using earth's return to life as a metaphor for growth and renewal. This was the first thing that came to mind after being given the brief as it is a 13 week project coinciding with this seasonal shift. However, through further thinking, I wanted to expand this concept into something deeper and reduce the risk of creating cliche work of a predictable and visible transformation.

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As I developed the idea further, I became less interested in dramatic or symbolic change, and more interested in perception itself. I began questioning what we actually mean when we use the word "change". We tend to associate it with disruption - moving house, shifting careers, endings, beginnings - events that interrupt the expected rhythm of life. Yet change is constantly happening in the background.

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Cloud formations never repeat - the clouds passing by my window right now will never look the same again. Light never falls in exactly the same way twice. Wind never bends a tree identically. Even stillness is temporary. However, because this flux is continuous and expected, we stop recognising it as change. We only tend to label something as change when it disrupts us.

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This project explores the idea that change becomes invisible when it is anticipated.

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Rather than documenting large transformations, I intend to photograph fleeting moments of light, weather, movement, shadow, and atmosphere in outdoor environments - singular moments that will never exist again in the same way. These are not dramatic events, but instances of micro instability that we often categorise as "ordinary" because they are not life changing, when in reality the most stable thing about life is its instability, and because we are familiar with that, these fleeting changes become normal.

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I intend for my work to ask when does change become visible? Why do we only recognise it when it interrupts expectation? Is something still labeled as a change if that's what it is expected to do?

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Over the 13 week duration, development will occur not through staged transformation, but through increasing perceptual sensitivity. Early stages may focus on more visible forms of change, while later work will examine subtler shifts in light, tone, texture and atmosphere. The progression reflects a sharpening of attention rather than a change in subject.

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Holistically, my intention is to encourage a more present mode of seeing. Expected change is often dismissed as inevitable, and therefore insignificant - yet nothing repeats itself identically. By isolating these transient moments, the project seeks to heighten awareness of what we are usually unconsciously aware of. Perhaps it's not change that is rare, but our thresholds for recognising it are selective.

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Ultimately, this work will reframe change not as disruption, but as continuity - an ongoing, unnoticed condition of being.