The amygdala

"The amygdala" quickly sends its massages.

A series of black-and-white self-portraits that emerged from moments in which I confronted a persistent sense of fear and insecurity within my home. It grew out of a condition I lived with for years, where threat felt constantly present despite having no visible source.

Over the course of a year, whenever this feeling arose, I placed the camera in the positions from which I perceived myself to be under threat, as though it had taken the place of an invisible gaze. The resulting images are neither reconstructions of events nor staged scenes; they were made within those very moments—moments in which the body responds to the presence of threat before there is any attempt to explain or control it.

Although rooted in a personal experience, the series gradually became a reflection on living within a geography where the boundary between safety and insecurity is continually reshaped by external threats and structures.