Broken Into Traces

A dystopian vision where humanity survives as traces—ghosts in a world reshaped by technology. Exploring “non-places” and shifting identities, it questions what remains of presence, memory, and belonging in a disembodied existence.

  Broken Into Traces arises from a personal sense of torment — an anxiety that grows in the face of a world drifting away from touch and from place. It envisions a future where human presence survives only as residue — marks, fragments, and echoes left behind. It reflects on a new form of alienation shaped by technology, a force that reshapes our connection to the physical world and the very notion of place.

  Can the body, bound to space and touch, endure within a culture that drifts ever further from the tangible? I reflect on the fragile bond between embodiment and identity — on how we see ourselves when our sense of place has been replaced by digital space. Are we still capable of inhabiting the world — assuming that at some point, somewhere, we once were — or do we merely move through its simulations?

  My gaze follows the shift from place to non-place.: from the natural landscape and the urban environment to a dystopian, disembodied space. The more we live in virtuality, the more our emotional and perceptual faculties lose calibration with the physical — a kind of existential disorientation that reshapes our collective imagination.

  Through my lens, I make my way through a dystopian landscape, where identity is fragile yet resilient. The people I portray often appear as afterimages, caught between memory and disappearance. I expose the body in moments of vulnerability while questioning the mechanisms of control that guide our wills and desires, a control not anymore imposed but requested by the majority of us.