The work explores the architecture of absence while moving through the world in search of connection and belonging. It reflects the solitude of contemporary life — a condition that is no longer exceptional but increasingly shared. In a world shaped by constant movement and surface connection, the images point to a quiet dislocation: being present without fully arriving or belonging. This dislocation produces an inner conflict shaped by loneliness and the repeated effort to connect. The work traces this tension through interruptions, pauses, and incomplete gestures — moments where presence exists without grounding.

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Within this condition, relational life becomes fraught. In a world structured around pairs and shared trajectories, prolonged solitude produces misalignment — existing outside the configurations that organize social space. Yet pairing does not guarantee resolution. When connection lacks depth or reciprocity, it generates unease: the strain of being together without truly being met. The work inhabits this double bind, where neither solitude nor togetherness secures belonging.

 

Travel enters the work as a response to this unrest. Movement offers the promise of relief — the belief that distance or change might interrupt what feels stalled. The photographs are made in hotel rooms, temporary interiors, city streets, and other transitional spaces. Yet each arrival reproduces the same condition. Rooms feel interchangeable, routines repeat. What begins as escape reveals itself as pattern. Motion does not resolve the conflict; it intensifies it.

 

As movement accumulates, the idea of home loosens. This instability extends beyond geography into identity, because when place does not settle, neither does belonging. For first-generation immigrants, including myself, this condition is intensified by repeated movement between origin, residence, and the in-between spaces of transit. Over time, displacement becomes less an exception and more a structure of daily life — one that exposes a broader condition of contemporary life, where loneliness and distance are no longer anomalies but organizing forces.

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Someplace / Not Here / Still There, But Not does not propose a resolution. It suggests that this condition may never fully resolve — that it is something one learns to recognize, inhabit, and endure. Awareness is not an answer, but a way of remaining present within the unsettled terrain of contemporary life.