Amid constantly changing surroundings, I often found myself shrinking—becoming smaller and smaller. I grew used to hiding, to repeatedly concealing myself rather than revealing who I was. For someone like me, who is so used to covering things up, change is anything but comfortable.
To overcome this sense of alienation and anxiety, I decided to visit the very places I used to look at during my solitary moments of contemplation. At times, I lost my way—but upon finally reaching my destination, I came face to face with a version of myself that felt different from the passive, powerless person I had known.
As part of my attempt to confront the more empowered version of myself, I installed a camera in those spaces of thought and turned it back toward me—capturing myself standing in the same places I once observed. This act of returning to the spaces of my own experience, framed through the physical distance of the camera, created a moment of reflection. Through this dialogue with myself, I explored my inner conflicts and questions. The rigid form of ‘myself’ in these images reflects, symbolically, the socially isolated individual—each figure staged as a kind of social sign.