What Remains, What Rises is a visual meditation on the dual nature of loss and transformation. Loss creates absence but also carves space for something new to take form. This series holds both the ache of what has been stripped away and the quiet beauty of what begins to surface in its place.

This project was sparked by the passing of my beloved cat. Witnessing her journey out of this world had a profound impact on me. A few months later, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer for the third time. And I’m turning 40 this year. Naturally, I began to reflect more deeply on mortality, mysticism, and transformation—how they intertwine, and how I might translate that intersection into imagery.

Each self-portrait is carefully composed in a minimal setting, using a DSLR camera on a tripod, a remote shutter, and natural light. Through blurred motion, intimate gestures, double exposures, and soft thresholds of shadow and light, I aim to capture moments of unraveling and re-forming, inhabiting the tension between grief and renewal. What Remains, What Rises invites viewers to linger in that in-between—to consider not only what is lost, but what emerges when we allow ourselves to feel.