I have always found it difficult to separate myself from the plant world. This is probably connected to the fact that for most of my life I worked with natural materials, observing their forms, their constant change, and their ability to move from one state to another. What has always drawn me to plants is the way they simply exist, regardless of whether they are noticed or not. Over time, they became a way for me to perceive the world and reflect on human fragility, inner transformation, and the capacity to constantly change.

This work emerged during a period of significant changes in my life, when many familiar ideas about myself began to lose their stability. Each image is an attempt to find a visual form for a particular inner state.

Working with plant materials allowed these states to become visible.

I have always been interested in portraiture as a place of encounter between the subject and the viewer. Usually, the face becomes the primary carrier of information about a person—their character, age, emotions, and individuality. In this series, I was interested in exploring how the perception of a person changes when the face is no longer the central focus of the image.

For this reason, the face in these works is often concealed or partially transformed.

Plants and other materials become part of the visual statement, altering the familiar boundaries of the human form and creating a new form of presence.

In this series, I explore a state in which the boundaries between human beings and nature begin to dissolve. Flowers, leaves, and other organic materials enter the human figure, conceal the face, become extensions of the body, or merge with it, blurring the familiar separation between a person and the surrounding world.

I find myself returning again and again to the idea that humans and nature do not exist separately from one another. We pass through similar processes of change, loss, transformation, and renewal. Perhaps this is why plant forms enter the human space of these works so naturally.