Wayfaring

2013-2017

Wayfaring is a photographic series that explores the search for home, identity, and selfhood through the metaphor of an external journey across unfamiliar landscapes.

Using self-portraiture and models as surrogates, the work reflects on the experience of leaving an all-encompassing belief system and the destabilization that follows. Figures appear isolated within expansive environments — often underprepared, suspended between departure and arrival — mirroring the psychological terrain of displacement and reinvention.

The concept of “home” in Wayfaring is both physical and metaphysical. The images grapple with the loss of inherited structures of meaning and the uncertain process of constructing a new internal landscape in their absence. While solitude and vulnerability recur throughout the series, the work ultimately centers resilience: the quiet strength required to move forward without a map, and the reclamation of self that emerges through that movement.

Wayfaring marks an early articulation of themes that continue throughout my practice, including embodiment, coercive belief systems, and the body as a site of both rupture and transformation.