WATER articulates the myriad ways in which waves, mist, reflections and specular highlights can fracture and form perception. At Nazaré, rainbows appear not against sky but within the spray that results from a surf break that looks more like an avalanche or eruption than waves. Elsewhere, the silhouette of a cliff juxtaposed with the sparkling sea becomes a graphic composition of near-abstraction. In certain instances, Lippke enters the ocean’s impact zone physically, allowing the sea to sculpt light through motion and collision. Water becomes both lens and subject: translucent, reflective, volatile. These images are more than seascapes. They are encounters of energy and stillness where beauty and danger coexist, and form dissolves into elemental motion.