Why I Don’t Choose Between Reality and Imagination
I never felt comfortable choosing sides — analog or digital, real or imagined.
My work lives in between.
And I’ve come to believe that’s where truth often hides: not in absolutes, but in that undefined space between them.
Photography taught me to observe.
To wait.
To capture the fleeting presence of something real. A shadow. A gaze. A silence.
It was my first language. Through it, I learned how to see.
But over time, I started to feel something stir beneath the surface — an urge not just to capture reality, but to bend it, stretch it, question it.
That’s when imagination came in.
That’s when technology became more than a tool — it became a brush.
With AI, I can invent. With video, I can breathe life into the still.
With my camera, I ground myself in the world.
With code and machines, I drift into other dimensions.
And I need both.
Because neither reality nor imagination is enough on its own.
What I seek is resonance.
What I try to create are echoes — of memories that never happened, of futures not yet lived, of thoughts we didn’t know how to name.
What matters most to me is the human intention.
Not the medium. Not the method.
Not whether something is “real” or “generated” — but why it exists at all.
Is it honest?
Does it move you?
Does it reveal something you didn’t expect?
These are the questions that guide my process — not the tools I use to get there.
This space, “Reflections”, is an extension of that approach.
A place to think out loud.
To share fragments, thoughts, doubts.
To invite you not just to see, but to feel the in-between.
I won’t pretend to have answers here.
But I’ll show you how I look for them — through the lens, through the pixels, through the tension between what is and what could be.
Because I don’t create answers. I create impressions.
