Liza Dracup has been shortlisted for the 2026 Aesthetica Art Prize. Further updates will follow.

Fractured Routes emerges from the conceptual frameworks of psychogeography and the dérive, adopting experimental modes of navigation to explore what it means to drift through time, place, and space. The project embraces movement as both method and subject, inviting a heightened sense of attunement to the shifting environments encountered along the way.

The resulting photographs, and the ideas underpinning them, articulate a poetics of transience. They capture the weight and texture of passage, its hesitations, its clunkiness, its fleeting intensities. Each image becomes a trace of embodied motion, shaped as much by instinct and emotional pull as by the unpredictable landscapes traversed. Here, traditional photographic processes give way to improvisation, intuition, and chance, allowing the work to respond directly to the simultaneous experience of arrival and departure.

Taken together, the series forms an interconnected visual narrative, one that embraces disorientation and harmony in equal measure. Through these fractured encounters, the work examines how movement imprints itself on perception, revealing a layered, multifaceted relationship between the self and the ever‑shifting world it inhabits.