so much for sunny california

So Much for Sunny California began within the manicured space of a suburban backyard pool, at an Airbnb in covina, california. the work stages a solitary figure caught between immersion and withdrawal — soaked, yet inexplicably dry. The image occupies a space culturally coded for leisure, affluence, and reinvention, but something seems to have stalled.

The California myth — perpetual sunshine, personal transformation, forward motion — hangs in the air like a storm that won’t blow over.