Michael Dweck: Mermaids, New York: Ditch Plains Press, 2008, pp. 102-103
Catalogue Essay
Swimming away from the viewer is the modern mermaid of Aripeka, on Florida’s Gulf Coast, who has spent much of her life in and around water and is capable of holding her breath underwater for several minutes. This alluring photograph, which embodies effortless grace and meditative isolation, was taken by Michael Dweck from inside a sealed glass box deep beneath the nearby Weeki Wachee River at 2am.
