Traveling through different states of the mind with my simple plastic camera. I travel through parallel worlds and weave them together, the real and the imagined. I explore memories, perceptions and dreams; how they form, sometimes fuse, break and alter with time.
I work with a 35mm camera with minimal settings. The unpredictable, low fidelity aesthetic mirrors the decaying and protective nature of memory itself; how it compels us to forget, to reconstruct, to add and omit. I question the authenticity of our own recollections. I create a visual representation of how memories are shaped and reshaped over time, acquiring layers of meaning that may not have been present in the original events.
I use experimental techniques to express an alternative world with no linear time, nor geographical boundaries. A world in which sometimes all moments happen at once. Memories and dreams fuse into one, some parts last, while others are missing. There are many truths and also manipulations, all colliding for an instance into one, to a moment that happened and didn’t happen and will never return.
I shoot digitally as much as I shoot on film. I have also been practicing kintsugi; the traditional Japanese art of repairing broken vessels with gold. Photographing that process as part of the work, and layering it with nature photographs from my personal archive, the photographs become a reminder of the eternal and the divine, and of the beauty in the process of healing. The imperfections, the missing parts, the blur, are all part of the story. Every scar, every fracture, a testament to something that was, and something that became. Not less, but rather more; precious, unique and beautiful.
Medium
Analog film (35mm) · Digital photography · Traditional kintsugi