The Straight Way Lost, Act I, Image 3

Third image from Act I of The Straight Way Lost, photographed along the Rideau Canal system and informally referred to as River Styx. The image uses intentional camera movement and layered reflections to dissolve spatial certainty into a near-abstract field of branches, water, and winter light. The work draws upon themes of psychological landscape, disorientation, and threshold, referencing the symbolic crossing into an uncertain inner terrain.