Witness
2013
In Witness, I examine the remnants of violence—both internal and inherited—
that reside in the body and the land. The series is rooted in a visceral, symbolic language
that straddles the threshold between ritual and ruin, survival and submission.
Set against the backdrop of a collapsing house and barren, scorched terrain, figures emerge as both spectral and defiant,
cloaked in mud, tangled in roots, or swathed in makeshift garments.
They perform gestures of mourning, of burial, of resistance. There is an unspoken choreography between the individual and the collective—
a reckoning, a bearing witness to something unspeakable.
These images are not documentary but rather dream fragments—
quietly theatrical tableaux drawn from the subconscious.
They ask: Who do we become when no one is watching, or when we are finally seen?
What does it mean to hold witness to your unmaking?
Witness seeks to render these moments with a painterly intimacy—dark, cinematic, and elemental;
an invocation of the body as archive and altar, site and symbol, haunted and haunting.
2013
In Witness, I examine the remnants of violence—both internal and inherited—
that reside in the body and the land. The series is rooted in a visceral, symbolic language
that straddles the threshold between ritual and ruin, survival and submission.
Set against the backdrop of a collapsing house and barren, scorched terrain, figures emerge as both spectral and defiant,
cloaked in mud, tangled in roots, or swathed in makeshift garments.
They perform gestures of mourning, of burial, of resistance. There is an unspoken choreography between the individual and the collective—
a reckoning, a bearing witness to something unspeakable.
These images are not documentary but rather dream fragments—
quietly theatrical tableaux drawn from the subconscious.
They ask: Who do we become when no one is watching, or when we are finally seen?
What does it mean to hold witness to your unmaking?
Witness seeks to render these moments with a painterly intimacy—dark, cinematic, and elemental;
an invocation of the body as archive and altar, site and symbol, haunted and haunting.
