The Haunted Self, 2012-Present

In these self-portraits I explore the fractured identity of the displaced migrant. Using masks and shifting personas, the work delves into the complexities of selfhood shaped by exile, memory, and cultural dislocation.

Each image is a ritual—an attempt to locate the self through transformation, while also mourning what has been forgotten or left behind. The masked figure is both concealment and revelation, a ghost of who was, and a gesture toward who might be.

This ongoing series traces the tension between visibility and erasure, longing and reinvention. It is a visual search for belonging in the aftermath of uprooting—where the self is never singular, but layered, haunted, and always becoming.