My artistic research is driven by the desire to understand myself, and to define and balance integrity in the face of constantly changing identity.

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I see the identity of the contemporary person as a fragile structure made up of multiple lenses, which have complex layers of social and cultural memories. It is most vividly manifested in immigration, which creates radical shifts in context; a person living with different perspectives, different optics that refract into each other, creating a fragmented and ever-changing backdrop for self-awareness. It is a complex system of mirrors where the subjective position and the other’s view are often indistinguishable from one another, making it incredibly challenging to find oneself. As an artist, I ask: Is the fragile and non-systematic state of subjectivity really that bad? Is escapism, the construction of one's own imaginary worlds, an expression of fragility?

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The numerous perspectives of one person are tightly bound by experience and memory. One fragment can point to a complex virtual chain, a sequence of beliefs, memories, and ideas.  In one fragment, we can see the integrity of the entire system, a reference to its transcendental whole. Perhaps, a person is complex but still a structure that can be contemplated, accepting its fragmentary nature and realizing that wholeness is merely a virtual figure of speech.