How to Kill a Shadow

‘How to Kill a Shadow’ is an ongoing project which documents the search for lost parts of my childhood, eroded by trauma, and pieced back together through cryptic dreams and fragmented memories. Within this landscape, the past and the present, the real and the imaginary, as well as states of consciousness, though capricious, are unified and mediated by the persisting presence of shadows. This project presents a therapeutic attempt to fill in the gaps left by old wounds through returning to creatures I created as a child alongside new interpretations of folk stories. Escaping the restrictions of my body through these costumes and self-portraits has been transformative to my understanding of self, leaving space for these utopian imaginings to creep into reality.