Replanted 2021 - 2026

Feb 20
1 min read

How do we access our inner memories?

How do we try to hold on to, erase or reinvent them?

Which events are so profound that they define us for the rest of our lives?

To me, the process of remembering is like traversing through a dense forest in search of insight.

In 2020, when I started creating this body of work – called Replanted – trees became my main source of inspiration. I began exploring the concept of home and the idea of the family tree as a portal to a personal cosmos. Memories from childhood, like drawing trees with my father and reading Gaston’s Bachelard Poetics of Space with my mother, encouraged me to ask the metaphorical question: What happens to a tree when it is transplanted from its original habitat?

By fragmenting, layering, and the juxtaposition of my photographic images, printed on a range of materials such as paper and acetate, monochrome and color, reflective and opaque surfaces, I invite viewers to look deeper into the layers upon which we build our lives. This process mirrors my exploration of the quiet poetic tension between past and present, nature and artifice, freedom and confinement, clarity and ambiguity.

For me, memories and experiences are imprinted deep within us, flowing through the mind and body like living roots that form intricate personal codes and symbols. These unseen maps are mystical, multi-layered, and ever-evolving, guiding my creative process and my continual search for meaning, belonging, and transcendence through art.

Handmade Photocollages & Overpainted Photographs