Dheevena Bachu
Marina Del Rey | Photography
After it rains, the world holds its breath while the air is thick with the fading remnants of the storm over the Pacific Ocean. The Marina holds a warm glow under the weight of the setting sun. Droplets cling to surfaces, catching the fiery rays of the sun as fleeting echoes of what just passed. Sailboats stand still as their masts reach into the dusk like silent observers of the shifting sky. The water, dusk, and harbor blur together in a moment suspended between storm and stillness, serving as a quiet reminder that beauty often lingers in the in-between.
Dheevena Bachu is a student at the College of Medicine
Dheevena Bachu
Nature's Beckoning | Photograph
This piece highlights the interplay between reality and longing, what we want but can’t have. Elsie, my peer’s cat, serves as a motif for curiosity and inquisition. She stares out into the world, but what captures her attention is not merely the landscape –it is her reflection staring back at her. Her other life. Her other world. As she gets closer and meets her reflection, the window becomes a threshold that blurs the boundary between what she has and what could be an entirely different life. When her gaze meets her reflection, she is confronted with questions of identity and perception. Just as she is drawn to what she does not have, we too find ourselves doing the same. It is Nature’s Beckoning that draws us to the essence of something new, perhaps something better. We are left forever seeking to understand the nature of our own reflection in the glass. So my question for viewers: do we look out too far, missing what is staring right back at us?