WATER is an exploration of the ways in which waves, mist, reflections and specular highlights both form perception and also reflect the internal movements of our psyche. 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. 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 introspective encounters of water’s energy and stillness, where beauty and danger coexist and water becomes a mirror of our internal world.