SELF-PORTRAIT IN LANDSCAPE
2025 - ongoing
At the heart of the series is the exploration of existentialist ideas, closely connected to my own lived experience and praxis. It embodies this belief system by illuminating (placing meaning) a space with a glowing ball (my gaze). The choice to focus on the gaze and the act of witnessing as a means of creating significance is rooted in personal reflection.
“To be witnessed, to be seen, to be understood. This ‘receiving’ creates a form of meaning in my life. Who or whatever is deemed significant to me can create this. God can be a witness, Odin's ravens can, the moon, my art, or myself even.”
By linking witnessing, presence, and the construction of meaning, the work functions both as a personal philosophical investigation and as an expression of my own sensibility.
Additionally, I translate different elements of my own sense of self into a color, a texture, a sound, a space, then I project this translation onto the chosen landscape. By removing the physical figure, the series questions whether a self-portrait can emerge through absence, symbolic presence, and conceptual representation of my interiority.