Fuji Crystal DP II Photo Paper Mounted on Wood, 2019

Roots, Not Fruits emerges from walking through landscape altered by rupture and absence, a series of responses that treat the act of moving through territory as a somatic way of bearing witness. The work inhabits a quiet, solemn space where presence and loss intersect, where each step becomes a way of registering what has been unsettled and what persists in the shadow of change. Seen as a kind of dark pilgrimage, the series is less about arriving than about staying with experience, tracking how land holds memory, how absence leaves trace, and how the body gathers its own impressions of loss and persistence. The photograph does not resolve or explain. It remains reflective and attentive to the way mourning can become a form of attention, one that unfolds slowly and without closure.