topographies of self (2022)
Topographies of Self explores inherited landscapes and domestic spaces as sites of presence and absence. Moving between exterior and interior worlds tied to familial origin, the work considers how environments become charged with memory, identity, and lived experience. Though human figures are absent, each space bears the imprint of lives once lived, traces of gestures and histories embedded in place.
The series reflects on diasporic belonging and the ways the self is shaped by environments we come from but do not fully inhabit, spaces that remain, waiting to be re-encountered. These topographies are not merely physical terrains, but emotional and psychological landscapes where memory lingers and identity is continuously formed through what remains.