I am thrilled to have made Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 200 list for 2024 for my project Real But Not True. I am deeply grateful to the screening jurors of Photolucida for supporting my work and honored to be among so many enormously talented artists who have inspired me over the years.

Real But Not True is a project that speaks to all the bits and ramblings we carry around in our brains: the circular thinking, the obscure and mysterious language of dreams and the relentless mind chatter that we struggle to escape from when we are trying so desperately to sleep. It explores this experience through the lens of fragmentation and anxiety. Collage is used as the foundational technique, where disparate elements such as found photographs and my own captured images are layered with leather, mica, paper and wood. These fragments of materials and techniques serve as windows into different times and narratives, creating a dialogue between memory and identity, between sleeping and waking, between what feels real and what is, or is not, true.