BRINEHEART_ Limited edition photographic triptych

2 may

From the Personal Notes of Captain Nemo

Filed under: Brineheart

They see a blade. I see an archive.

Every layer of growth, every crust of salt — it's not dirt, it's narrative. Life drawn to motion. Time folded into metal. The sea claims everything, but it leaves its handwriting behind.

When they scrape it clean, they call it maintenance. I call it erasure.

And yet... the heart remains. Beneath the polish, beneath the coating, it remembers what it moved through. It remembers the weight of stillness. The cold of depth. The silence between storms.

Brineheart is not about function. It's about what endures when the sea has had its say.

**Before**
*Obra Viva.*
Caught between motion and rest.
A vessel’s heart, now a reef.
The sun traces its last voyage across a surface shaped by time and tide.

**During**
*Obra Viva.*
The marks are gone, but the journey remains.
Renewal is not erasure. It’s preparation for what comes next.

**After**
*Obra Viva.*
Final layer. Last light.
Clean doesn’t mean untouched.

Collector’s Note

Brineheart is the first limited edition triptych released from the Obra Viva project — a body of work dedicated to the dialogue between sea and vessel, nature and craft.

This subcollection traces the transformation of a ship’s propeller — from encrustation and marine life, through cleaning, to its polished state just before re-entering the water. These images invite reflection not on function, but on memory. What the sea gave, what it claimed, and what it left behind.

Only a small number of editions have been produced. Each set is printed on museum-grade paper, hand-signed, and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Brineheart is only available as a complete triptych and will not be sold in parts.

To collect Brineheart is to hold a fragment of a cycle — not just of water and metal, but of erosion, renewal, and endurance.