I make portraits, but I am not interested in simply reproducing a person’s appearance. I distort, layer, erase and reconstruct the face to explore what exists beneath recognition. A familiar face slowly becomes unfamiliar, and in that unfamiliarity, something strangely intimate begins to appear.

Strangers Within comes from this contradiction. We carry versions of ourselves that are invisible to others and sometimes unfamiliar even to ourselves. Memory, experience, anxiety, desire and imagination constantly reshape our sense of identity.
The portraits exist between recognition and disappearance. They ask: Who are we when the image we recognise as ourselves begins to change? How much of a stranger already exists within us? For me, the distorted face becomes a space where identity is unstable, continuously forming and dissolving.