Leda

Shot on 35mm film at the Galleria Borghese in Rome, Leda is a motion-blurred photograph of Sodoma's Leda and the Swan — the intentional camera shake dissolving the Renaissance painting into something dreamlike and destabilized, a photograph of a painting that becomes its own image entirely. The blur isn't an accident or an aesthetic choice made lightly. It's the point: this is what it looks like to experience classical beauty through contemporary eyes, mediated, disorienting, and still somehow intoxicating.
The myth itself holds both romance and brutality in the same breath — Zeus transforming into a swan, Leda's expression hovering between bliss and something harder to name. Leda doesn't resolve that tension. It leans into it. The ornate antique frame situates the photograph back inside the tradition it's simultaneously questioning, asking how much has actually changed in how we look at women, at beauty, at power dressed up as desire.