Artist statement

In my ongoing exploration of identity through self-portraits, I employ various forms of physical intervention - collages, ruptures, overlapping objects - attempting simultaneously to reconstruct the self and dissolve it into its components. Each work is an experiment on the self, and as such, it cannot be final. Identity manifests through fragments, through absences, through the residue left behind by deconstruction. My practice is grounded in the conviction that a portrait is never, and can never be, a true representation of the self.

Identity is not a stable structure. Layers of experience, education, parental attitudes, and social expectations accumulate, intersect, and remain perpetually open to revision. My practice becomes a form of research into a self that is, in some fundamental sense, always out of reach. Each time I look inward, I encounter one of the visible layers and it is always me, yet always an unfamiliar version of me. What unsettles me further is that attempting to confront the parts of myself I resist leads only to the recognition that they are nonetheless constitutive of who I am. The exclusion of those parts would represent the self incomplete, like the construction missing the essential part.