Kate farnady
"Notes from the Bardo:
Seven Love Letters to Uncertainty"

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Showing January 24 - February 13, 2026​

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This collection of photographs emerged from a series of personal disruptions. These images are reflections on life experiences; moments when identity shifted, old patterns surfaced, awareness became keen, and something new began to take shape. They are illustrations of what it feels like to be between endings and beginnings, to watch my own unraveling, to stay, and to choose forward motion again and again.

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In 2025, I started open water swimming. It became a practice of presence for me; feeling resistance, stepping into the unknown, staying with sensations that dissolved familiar boundaries, along with a tremendous sense of release. In those moments of immersion, I learned over and over that transformation does not come from control, but from staying present and letting go.

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The term bardo is borrowed from Buddhist contemplative practice. It names this in-between space, not as a fixed sequence of states, but as a felt terrain of uncertainty, dissolution, and passage. These works are love letters to the ongoing practice of showing up, of staying present through surprise and disruption, noticing what arises, feeling, and stepping into the next moment with curiosity.

I am grateful to be able to share these images with you now, at the start of a new year, when we often find ourselves floating between what was and what is becoming.
 

See more of Kate Farnady's work on Instagram - heyk8

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