Created without a predetermined conceptual framework, the works originate from moments of heightened attentiveness—instances where the camera became a tool for noticing fleeting encounters and delicate sensory impressions in the world around her.

The photographs hover between abstraction and representation, often dissolving into softness or slipping out of focus. This threshold—where an image is almost recognisable yet somehow elusive—is central to the series. Jandrell’s subjects vary widely, from natural forms and nocturnal landscapes to underwater creatures and intimate portraits, yet what unites them is not their content but their sensibility: the shared quality of movement, strangeness, and atmospheric fragility that arises in the instant the camera freezes what the eye rarely registers.

Each image captures a tiny fragment of time, a momentary encounter that feels both familiar and otherworldly. The work foregrounds the ephemeral—light glancing off a surface, a fleeting shift of colour, a form glimpsed in passing—cultivating an experience that sits between the tangible and the imagined.

Taken together, the images form a non‑linear narrative built from fragments rather than stories. Jandrell deliberately resists spectacle, clarity, and conventional photographic expectations. Instead, she leans into quietness, ambiguity, and subtlety, creating a body of work that invites viewers to slow down and engage with moments of stillness and vulnerability. The photographs challenge the pace and noise of contemporary visual culture, offering instead a space where attention can settle and perception can deepen.

This series is an exploration of the delicate threshold between seeing and sensing. Through these atmospheric, fragmentary images, Jandrell constructs a world that is both intimate and uncanny—one that asks us to linger, to look closely, and to allow ourselves to be momentarily suspended in the quietness of an encounter.

This series was produced for a two person show with Melanie Stidolph at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives in December 2025.