TWISTED

Artist Statement

Distance does not simply separate — it distorts. It warps time, bends memory, and reshapes the people we thought we knew into something we can no longer quite reach.

Twisted is a photography series born from two years of longing and the silence that followed. After the end of a long-distance relationship, I found myself unable to speak about the grief in any language others could understand. The feelings had no place to land. So I turned to objects.

By projecting the presence of another person onto the material world around me — ordinary things, familiar things — I began to reconstruct what closeness might have felt like had geography never stood between us. Each image imagines an intimacy that was always theoretical: a togetherness built entirely from inference and hope.

The title Twisted speaks to that distortion. Not broken, not destroyed — but bent out of its natural shape by the particular cruelty of loving someone at a distance. What remains is not absence, but the strange, knotted form that presence takes when it cannot be physical.

This work is not about longing to be touched. It is about what the mind builds in place of touch — and whether those constructions are beautiful, or simply necessary.