Artist statement

My practice centers on portrait and conceptual photography, with self-portraiture becoming increasingly central to my work. Rather than simply documenting what exists, I engage in a process of active intervention—breaking down, transforming, and reconstructing the photographic image to examine how identity is visually constructed and how it evolves through time, context, and inner transformation.

The photograph serves as a beginning rather than an endpoint. I print my images and deconstruct them with physical materials: glass, paint, thread, dried plants. Through shifting, distorting, and disrupting these layered surfaces, I allow form itself to communicate—speaking through breaks, contradictions, and imperfections that reveal what conventional representation conceals.

Form becomes my methodology for investigation. By dismantling the photograph's apparent unity, I search for its underlying architecture and uncover concealed layers of meaning. This process of intervention functions as visual deconstruction: fragmentation, distortion, and layering become tools for accessing what typically remains beyond the frame of perception.

In my work, material, surface, and form transcend decoration—they operate as instruments of analysis and articulation, revealing the constructed nature of identity and the spaces between what we see and what we understand.