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Is It Series

This series of digital collages explores the affect of incomprehensible through a practice-led framework I term Weird Methodology, a structure that resists linear storytelling and instead excavates narrative from fragmented visual evidence. While influenced by Surrealism, my work diverges through its emphasis on constructed dissonance, reverse narrative, and the disappearance of the creator as an anchoring subject.

Rather than presenting closed images, the collages invite the viewer to enact their own narrative logic – each work is a proposition rather than a resolution. Situated between the uncanny and the sacred, the flesh and the floral, these images are invitations to read the unreadable.

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