When the Sea turns Blue
Rui Xiao
This project explores the quiet, lingering influence of a man who entered the artist’s life in 2020. Although the idea for the work formally began in 2023, its emotional origins trace back further, rooted in a personal and enduring connection that continues to shape the artist’s inner world.
At the heart of the project is a complex, unspoken dynamic—a quiet emotional pull that infiltrates daily life not through dramatic events, but through silence, memory, and presence. The images reflect this understated intensity: not through abstraction, but through the sea—a recurring motif that represents not landscape, but emotion, memory, and longing.
Rather than exhibiting the work on walls, the artist chose the format of a book, seeking a more intimate and personal encounter between the viewer and the images. The book becomes a space for quiet reflection, for turning pages the way one revisits memories or waits for a response that never quite arrives.
Rui Xiao is a visual artist and photographer who graduated from the University of Westminster in London. Her work focuses on personal emotions, memory, and quiet moments. This project takes the form of a photobook, which she sees not only as a way to sequence images, but as a vessel for emotional flow—where silence and waiting unfold slowly, page by page.
When the Sea turns Blue
When the Sea turns Blue
When the Sea turns Blue
When the Sea turns Blue
When the Sea turns Blue
When the Sea Turns Blue
