Artist Statement:

In Echoes of the Seen, I navigate the fragile territory between memory and perception, where photographs—those fragments of the visible world—are fractured and reassembled into something both familiar and elusive. These works emerge from a process of layering, resizing, and recontextualizing images, creating illusions and relationships that ripple across the boundaries of time and space. Photography often promises clarity, a fixed record of what was. But these collages revel in uncertainty, in the instability of what we think we’ve seen. Each fragment retains the echo of its origin, yet in its collision with other pieces, something new surfaces—a distortion, a harmony, a question. The result is a shifting tableau where color, shape, and light converse in ways that feel both accidental and inevitable. This project is as much about absence as it is about presence. The spaces between layers, the ghosts of what’s been obscured or resized, invite a kind of searching—a quiet reckoning with the limits of vision and memory. These works are artifacts of transition, at once ephemeral and persistent, drawing attention to the ways images slip through our grasp even as they linger in our minds.