Archaeologies of Becoming (Ongoing)
Archaeologies of Becoming is an ongoing series that examines how identity is gradually shaped through experience, memory, responsibility, and the passage from childhood to adulthood. The works consider becoming as a process of accumulation, where knowledge, expectations, and lived experiences leave traces upon the self. The series explores how innocence…
Survival
Just trying to live one more day—nothing more, nothing promised.
The Eight Minds
The Eight Minds is inspired by how an octopus thinks — not through a single brain, but through many interconnected centers of intelligence. A creature so extraordinary that scientists and researchers are still trying to understand how its many minds truly work. In this series, the octopus becomes a metaphor…
The Invisible Blood
I suffered from depression long before I knew how to name it. I smiled through difficult moments—through hurt and insult—not out of resilience, but numbness. I believed everyone was kind, unaware that I was burying my own pain deep within my mind for years.People often said, “You are so strong.…
NUMBNESS
Vision exists, but focus does not. You are awake, yet the world arrives blurred—visually, mentally, emotionally. I told psychiatrists I could not see properly; they told me to “fight,” as if effort could override a body that had ceased to respond. Survival began with the impossible task of getting out…
Unseen Gravity
This series comes from my personal experience of depression — a silent gravity inside me that no one else can see or feel. It is not loud or dramatic; it is a slow, constant heaviness that pulls you down even while you are smiling and functioning in front of everyone.…
Absolute Numbness (2025)
This body of work emerged from a period of emotional numbness, when the ability to feel was suspended but the impulse to create persisted. I wanted to feel color again—to experience light, warmth, and movement—yet I was repeatedly drawn toward darkness. Works created during this time carry that tension: the…