Inner Mapping

"Inner Mapping" is a reflection on time and the traces we leave behind. The project is born from the realization that we exist on a shifting archipelago, where every loss reshapes the topography of our identity.

Inner Mapping

My artistic practice explores the medium of photography as a fluid and changeable substance, transforming the capture of a moment into a deliberate reconstruction. I am interested in how personal and collective histories are preserved in material and immaterial traces—in objects, textures, and details that endure even after the people they belonged to have disappeared. I work within the liminal states between reality and fiction, where objects speak for people and preserve their traces. Currently, I am exploring how material objects become carriers of memory and how a constructed fiction can be truer than reality.

Project Description

My memory does not store facts; it is perpetually engaged in reconstruction. Like a kaleidoscope, fragments of experience rearrange themselves into a new, flickering image every time I look back. I perceive consciousness as a shifting archipelago—a landscape in constant motion. Time does not merely flow past us; it dissipates us, eroding old connections and redrawing the topography of our identity.

In "Inner Mapping," I document an "archaeology of the present". This series is a dialogue with emptiness—an attempt to capture what slips away. Everyday objects, accidental patches of light, and the textures of a landscape become artifacts. They hold the trace of a person long after they have vanished, transforming erosion into a new form of presence.

To visualize this internal mechanism, I utilize the heavy grain of film and the chemical errors of analog processes. For me, these defects and blurriness are the most honest embodiments of how we remember. They represent the point where memory preserves, distorts, and erases simultaneously. The present is merely our single point on an infinite, shifting map. The time "before" and "after" us is the same space, existing beyond our perception. In this project, memory is not a document; it is a living landscape where every loss becomes a part of who I am.