Encounters

A space dedicated to the quiet, unhurried experience of truly looking at something: the patience it takes, the unexpected connection that follows, the way a work of art can open a world that usually unfolds beyond our awareness.

Motherhood

I have spent two years trying to get aerial photographs of dolphins that meet my standards. Two years of early mornings, dead ends, and days when the ocean offers nothing but its indifference. For this series, I flew from Montauk to Southampton over four days...

Before the Work Knew What It Was

There is a particular kind of attention that comes from having watched a work grow. Jiyong Lee, Professor of Art and Design at Southern Illinois University, served on Nancy Yu's thesis committee — which means he encountered Crowns of Glass not as a stranger walking into a gallery, but as someone who had...

Where Light Meets Wings

Each year, from late January to early February, Great Egrets gather at Kraft Azalea Garden in Central Florida, marking the beginning of their breeding season. Their timely return always fills me with excitement—it means I once again have the opportunity to capture fleeting, poetic moments in nature...

Witness in the Hollow

On a cold winter morning in early February 2026, the landscape beyond Ahmedabad lay quiet beneath the pale light of dawn. The fields, dry and muted, held the stillness that arrives just before the day begins to stir. Frostless, but cold enough to hold the earth in suspension between night and day...