Grey Beach

In her new collection, Kayla Dantz reflects on summer as both a state of calm and a site of intensity, moving between the stillness of a quiet lake and the energy of a crowded beach. Created during the spring and early summer of 2026, the works combine nostalgic photographs from her grandparents’ film archive with more recent images drawn from her own summers and travels. Across the series, Dantz focuses on the tactile and visual textures of warmer days—rippling water, sand, rocks, palm trees, sails, and solitary figures—capturing fleeting moments that feel at once precise and open-ended.

Through the process of weaving, Dantz physically reconstructs and recontextualizes these images, allowing distinct moments to overlap, fragment, and coexist. In some works, multiple memories are intertwined within a single surface, collapsing the distance between past and present. The resulting compositions explore the instability of memory and the ways personal histories are continually reshaped through recollection. By weaving photographs back together, Dantz creates a visual language in which time becomes layered, memories merge, and familiar summer scenes take on a new, fluid form.