Ruins and other Ruins like these

This project explores speculative archaeology in fictional and digital landscapes, blending analog and virtual tools to uncover the ruins of worlds that never were.

Engaging with object-oriented ontology and the archaeology of the unreal, the project investigates how artifacts oscillate between presence and absence—not only emerging from the earth but also materializing within constructed worlds, disappearing into lore, or decaying in abandoned virtual spaces. These temporal instabilities challenge the notion of ruins as static remnants, instead framing them as dynamic, time-saturated entities shaped by memory, myth, and simulation. Through this lens, photography becomes an act of speculative excavation, mapping the shifting boundaries between history, fiction, and the digital unknown.