2020

This project finds its conceptual foundation in Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic discourse—particularly his notion of animistic thinking, understood as a mode of perception in which inner psychic states are projected onto the external world, granting objects, places, and phenomena an imagined agency, presence, and capacity to communicate. The surrounding world plays a central role here, not merely as context or backdrop, but as an active participant that speaks through its visual, spatial, and material presence. Landscapes, built environments, objects, and atmospheric conditions carry their own coded language—an instinctive form of communication that precedes and exceeds rational structure.

Through this lens, I turn toward the instinctive and the unseen, seeking a more direct, unfiltered dialogue with my surroundings. This process becomes a reimagining of what a self-portrait can be—no longer a fixed representation, but a living exchange between the self and the world it inhabits, shaped through proximity, perception, and a more archaic mode of relation.

Part I of this series is  You Never Look at Me from The Place from Which I See You