Jasmine & Gasoline

Jasmine & Gasoline is a series inspired by the myth of Persephone. This time, she doesn’t return to the underworld, she breaks free. Through water, gesture, and intimacy with the natural world, the series traces transformation as a way back home.

Jasmine & Gasoline reimagines the cyclical pattern of descent and return in the myth of Persephone. This time, she breaks free. These are her notes from paradise, tracing her escape from emotional underworlds toward a deeper sense of home within herself.

Photographed along coastlines and urban edges, she meets the natural world again, charged. Water, light, and touch become her guides. A faint trace of pomegranate lingers, the old world becoming the threshold into the new. A hand on her own skin, learning it again. She enters the sea one woman and surfaces another.

Moving between documentary, self-portrait, and landscape, the photographs slip between clarity and abstraction as identity does. The sea is both destination and threshold, a place where something long buried resurfaces. Home, here, is not a fixed location but an interior state, a self reclaimed beyond the cycles that once defined her. The camera becomes a site of reawakening, rehearsing a quiet utopia of rest, renewal and internal bloom. Made in a season she couldn't yet name, this work carried her out of it.