A Thousand Days at Sea

Kristina Vermey

A Thousand Days at Sea

Kristina Vermey

At the end of 2019, Tasmanian-born Kristina Vermey set herself a challenge: to swim each day in nature.

One year turned into two until the days reached a thousand. A thousand days of anticipation, trepidation and exhilaration. Of noticing the shifting seasons: The changing illustration of sun and tide; the sea sparkle in Summer and snow melt in Spring; the morning adornment of river and sky. 

A Thousand Days at Sea documents this journey in a series of transcendental seascapes. It is at once a story of homecoming and a celebration of beauty, ritual, healing, addiction and finding comfort in pain.

Kristina Vermey. Undeniable Dilemma (detail) (2021). Photography. 1120 x 920cm.
Kristina Vermey. Mine is Forever (detail)(2022). Photography. 1020 x 815cm.
Kristina Vermey. kunanyi (detail) (2020). Photography. 1020 x 815cm.