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My practice explores how perception, memory, and cultural experience are shaped through the environments we inhabit. Working across photography, moving image, and research-led methodologies, I investigate the relationships between people, landscapes, urban spaces, and the systems of meaning embedded within them.

 

I approach places as layered sites where histories, beliefs, everyday rituals, and personal encounters intersect. Through long-term observation and site engagement, my work examines how environments carry psychological, social, and cultural traces that are not always immediately visible. Rather than treating landscapes as passive subjects, I see them as active spaces shaped by memory, transformation, and human presence over time.

 

Influenced by documentary traditions yet grounded in conceptual inquiry, my projects move between densely constructed urban environments, coastal territories, riverine communities, and overlooked spaces undergoing change. Across these different contexts, I am interested in tensions between visibility and invisibility, permanence and disappearance, acceleration and stillness.

 

Using a restrained visual language attentive to light, atmosphere, duration, and spatial experience, I construct works that exist between observation and interpretation. More recent projects engage vernacular cosmologies, spiritual practices, and ecological relationships in Southeast Asia, exploring how belief systems continue to shape contemporary understandings of place and reality.

 

Through these encounters, my work invites slower forms of looking and reflection, considering how environments hold the accumulated residues of human activity, imagination, and time.

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