Change

Change: Life’s Constant State of Movement. A sustained meditation on transformation — of bodies, environments, and the emotional states that bind them — Change navigates the thresholds between interior and exterior experience. Created during a period of personal transition, the series traces how life resists stillness. Each image captures a moment of flux: plants folding into decay, a young face suspended between innocence and awareness, water mid-transition — breaking apart and recomposing itself. Photographed across East Africa and the islands of the Seychelles, these landscapes reveal their own cycles of erosion, humidity, and renewal. For van Schalm, these environments became emotional architectures — geographies where internal states found quiet mirrors. Rather than documenting change, the work performs it: mirrored compositions, shifting perspectives, and subtle distortions unsettle the stability of the frame, inviting a perceptual drift. Change proposes transformation not as rupture, but as continuous flow — a drifting state through which identity, nature, and memory are perpetually reformed.