This work is a journey tracing the boundary between myself as a mother and myself as an individual. At its center are my twin children, born in 2017. Welcoming them into my life brought a joy beyond measure. Yet, as our time together deepened, the contours of my own existence began to blur. I started to feel as though the boundary of who I was was slowly dissolving. Why did this unease become a question of “loss of boundaries” for me? Perhaps because even before becoming a mother, I had lived with a heightened awareness of the distance between “myself” and “others.” Drawn to the subtle fluctuations between closeness and separation, I found myself turning to photography. In search of an answer, I took up the camera. I traced faint outlines of “I” in my children and in the objects of everyday life, releasing the shutter only in moments that quietly stirred something within me. Photographing my twins became inseparable from the act of turning my gaze inward—toward myself. Over the course of eight years, I began to sense that the self I believed I had lost might not have disappeared. Instead, it had merged with my maternal identity, transforming its shape while remaining in motion. This work has not yet found an answer. Moving back and forth between being a mother and being myself, I continue to stand at that boundary—using photography as a way to remain there.
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