Having lost both my homeland and a parent at an early age, themes of dislocation, impermanence, and the fragility of human presence are central to my work. In Sites, I explore these ideas through site-specific interventions in abandoned houses, military outposts, overgrown gardens, and hidden backyards. Though stripped of their original purpose, these spaces retain vestiges of past use and are continuously transformed by decay and the occasional trespass of human visitors.
I work with what I find on location: wooden floorboards, broken roof tiles, and empty soda bottles are assembled into shelters for unknown occupants or altars charged with absence. The installations re-inscribe memory and the promise of new life onto forgotten structures. Autonomous photographic works become the only documents of my process, while the installations themselves are left behind to contribute to the ongoing history of decay.
Each installation—and its resulting photograph—engages in a dialogue between the site’s forces of creation and destruction, inviting reflection on mortality, memory, and the traces that endure after we’ve gone.