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In my artistic practice, I explore the liminal space between objective reality and the way we perceive it. I am interested not in the world as a given, but in its phenomenon—the complex fabric of memories, emotions, and archetypes that constitutes our inner landscape. My photography is an attempt to document this unseen, to make visible the "magical" reality that is hidden within the everyday.

My method is one of visual poetics. I use multiple exposures not to create an effect, but to investigate time as a palimpsest, where past and future are layered upon the present in a single frame. With light and color, I do not simply illuminate, but rather sculpt inner states. Through an attention to texture, I strive to restore to the image its materiality in an era of ephemeral digital images. For me, every technical choice is a way to approach the essence of a subject, not to mask it.

Ultimately, my work is an act of quiet resistance to the culture of superficial attention and speed. I invite the viewer to engage in "slow looking," to enter a dialogue with the image in which they might discover something about themselves. I believe the role of art today is not merely to reflect the world, but to transform our perception of it, proving that the most profound magic is always hidden in plain sight.

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