ARTIST STATEMENT

I create lens-based artworks that merge photography, speculative fiction, and emerging technologies to investigate how stories operate across time. Working with staged and unstaged photography, archival material, and generative AI, I construct layered visual systems—speculative portraits and uncanny landscapes—in which human and machine perception converge and the boundaries between memory, myth, and media begin to dissolve.

My work treats images not as static documents but as temporal objects: sites where past, present, and imagined futures coexist. Through hybrid processes of digital and hand-cut collage, lenticular overlays, writing, and installation, I explore storytelling as a technology—one of humanity’s earliest tools for making sense of uncertainty, loss, and the unknown. These compositions reflect what I describe as an aesthetics of collapse, a condition in which narratives, identities, and images continually rewrite one another as stable frameworks of meaning erode.

Three questions guide this practice: How do the life cycles of stories shape identity and cultural memory across generations? How does fiction function as a means of metabolizing complex or traumatic experience? And how does our understanding of time—through concepts such as deep time, simultaneity, and the block universe—influence how stories are told, transmitted, and believed?

Anchored in research and speculative inquiry, my work draws on media theory, posthumanism, and cultural history alongside personal and inherited mythologies. It operates at a moment when the systems that carry stories—photographic, computational, and social—are increasingly unstable, and when distinctions between sender, message, and receiver collapse into recursive feedback loops in which memory and machine shape one another.