Echoes

“Echoes” consists of a series of woven works made from analog photographs of bodies. The bodies within these woven works dissolve into patterned noise. The self becomes abstracted, depersonalized - an echo of its former presence.

Echoes is a photographic project inspired by my personal experience of depersonalisation and my ongoing fascination with time — especially the concept of imaginary time, where past, present, and future exist simultaneously rather than in a linear sequence. Though these two themes may seem unrelated, they both question the stability of reality as we perceive it.

As a child, I was fascinated by the vastness of space and time. I remember feeling overwhelmed by the idea that space expands not only above me, but in every direction — I felt myself shrinking, to the point of disappearing. That sensation of vanishing later revealed itself as depersonalisation: the experience of being disconnected from one’s body and identity.

My work attempts to give visual form to this fluid, fragmented state of being. Using analogue photography, I manipulate images of the human body in the darkroom with chemicalss. These prints are then scanned and further developed to be made into woven works. Through this process, the body becomes abstracted. It seems to be disappearing, dissolving, into dots, stains, and the structure of the fabric. What remains is not a fixed form, but an echo of presence.

A key influence in this project is Carlo Rovelli’s writing on quantum physics, particularly his idea that we should view “things” not as objects but as events. A stone for example isn’t solid, fixed, but a temporary “dance of atoms”; just like all matter, including the body. In this way, the experience of depersonalisation could be a window through which we get to see a glimpse into a deeper, more fluid layer of reality.

With Echoes, I aim to explore what it means to exist in a body that doesn’t always feel like one’s own — and to question how we locate the self in a world where time, matter, and identity are all in flux.

Technical information: Woven works, sizes range from 86x112cm to 112x170cm, the works are mounted and framed.