Veils of Perception

This series explores the fragile terrain between concealment and revelation. The cloth is both shield and sculptor, shaping the identity of each figure while keeping it just beyond reach. Only a faint impression of form remains visible, a trace that allows the viewer to sense rather than see. Through these veiled silhouettes, the work captures how presence can be felt most powerfully through what is withheld.

The images evoke the psychic weight of witnessing, shaped by displacement, censorship, and loss. The surfaces do not portray pain directly but hold its afterimage, the subtle residue left behind when the voice has quieted. Within this hush, light and shadow merge, creating spaces where what is known and what is imagined coexist. The cloth becomes a second skin, one that remembers, conceals, and defines.

At its essence, Veils of Perception is a meditation on restraint and endurance. It invites the viewer to approach slowly, to look not for revelation but for trace. In this stillness, identity is not fixed but felt, formed by the gentle interplay of covering and becoming. The veil, far from hiding, reveals how memory and survival shape the visible and the unseen alike.