Emigre Diary (2023 - ongoing)

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This series of self-portraits was begun after the artist's first year of emigration and continues across several years of life in displacement. The artist uses self-portraiture to observe how inner experience and self-perception shift over time under the pressure of historical events and prolonged absence of place. Each work adopts a distinct visual language, with changes in manner and brushwork registering different psychological states. Refusing stylistic continuity or narrative resolution, the series resists coherence as a whole; accumulation replaces closure, allowing instability and re-formation to remain visible rather than resolved.