In my series "Species," I explore the nature of memory as a biological screenshot, portraying it as a curated collection of vivid yet unreliable stills where reality entertains the unreal. My work serves as a dynamic archive, with each composition forming a portal to the next. These pieces reveal our neuroses and obsessions both societally and interpersonally—depicted as transient visions that emerge from different brain regions, akin to how dreams and memories coalesce during our sleep cycles. I am fascinated by the ways in which we recall memory, reconstructing rather than retrieving fragmented images from our biological filing systems. The mechanisms from within churn new and potentially false iterations of reality. Nonetheless, these fragments have been made “real” through their recompositioning.

This series forms a narrative thread, each scene building on or extrapolating from the last to craft a story told by an unreliable narrator. Through my work, I invite viewers to insert themselves into the unfolding events. Employing a neo-surrealist approach, this series explores the profound impact of memory on our understanding of both the tangible and the elusive. In doing so, they confront our deepest fears and the murky interplay between reality and fantasy, evoking a past that is both feigned and foraged, and a future in which we shape our perception of the physical and metaphysical.