An evolving body of work shaped by a sense of American dysphoria, Long Time Caller, First Time Listener explores the dissonance between the promise of connection and the reality of isolation. Borrowing its title from the language of radio call-in culture, the project frames communication as an act of reaching outward without certainty of being received, where expression is constant but understanding remains unstable. Each image exists as both a call and an echo, contributing to a larger, unresolved conversation about what it means to speak, to listen, and to exist within a culture where both are increasingly out of sync.

Rooted in personal experience, the project reflects on how identity and emotion are mediated through systems that promise visibility yet often produce distance. Dysphoria emerges here not as spectacle, but as a

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