Presence

2025 There are times when we need to appear. At other times, we need to dissolve. The colors speak for me. In this space of vapor and diffuse presence, I let the image breathe what I can’t say. Masks sometimes don’t hide – they shield. Here, it’s not the body that matters, but what vibrates…

2024 To close the body, one must first gather its scattered parts. On the old floor of the house, I lay out amulets — not as shields, but as summons. Fragments of faith, defense, and return. The body longs to remember itself: beneath layers, masks, and rituals, it seeks what was forgotten. 

2023 In 2019, I lost a dear friend — a vibrant soul taken from the world for existing beyond the borders it demands. His death ignited a fire within me: a need to create, to resist, to remember. This series is a visual journey through grief and the strength of being a queer soul in…