My art practice comes from a lifelong struggle to understand myself and the persistent psychological unease that has accompanied me. Photography has become a way of confronting this inner world, to make visible things that are difficult to articulate and to give physical form to thoughts, memories and feelings that otherwise remain intangible.

Primarily working with dolls, action figures and other miniature objects, I manipulate them into staged tableaus and mise-en-scènes. These artificial bodies become surrogates for the human form and, in turn, for aspects of myself. Through them I explore identity, memory, perception, difference, isolation and the often uncomfortable distance between how I experience myself and how I believe I am perceived by others.

My images are sometimes playful, sometimes absurd and often unsettling. Beneath their constructed surfaces is an attempt to reconcile the conflicting parts of my own identity and to make sense of a world that can often feel unfamiliar or difficult to navigate. The figures allow me to externalise my internal experiences, turning the personal into something that can be seen, examined and perhaps understood.

Ultimately, photography is less an escape from my darkness than a means of entering it. While many photographers strive to capture the light, I turn my camera inward, documenting the shadows, ghosts and unresolved questions that continue to inhabit me.