Standing neck-deep & fully-clothed in the ocean, with a ziplock bag and some rubberbands over the camera. The waves were making such lovely shapes as the hands of the storm stretched overhead. Edisto, South Carolina 2010. Cole Rise has spent the better half of his life behind the lens; stalking cows and lying in the grass to capture the landscape. He can't tell you how big the universe is, or why we're really here, but his work sometimes flirts with the idea of knowing.