Fugue refers to the way a theme or identity can appear, fade, and return in a changed form over time. In this project, it describes how the image, and the self within it, moves through cycles of making, altering, and re-encountering.

This ongoing body of work explores the relationship between image, material, and place through a cyclical process of making and returning.

Self-portraits are printed on newsprint, a fragile, time-bound surface associated with information, impermanence, and record, then drawn into, altered, and carried back into natural environments. The prints are placed among trees and landscapes, where they are re-photographed, allowing the work to exist momentarily within the living world before becoming an image again.

The project reflects on how identity is shaped through layers of imprint, exposure, and erosion - how the body, the mark, and the land speak to one another across time. What remains is not a fixed portrait, but a trace: of presence, of movement, and of the ongoing dialogue between the human and the natural.

What remains is not a fixed portrait, but a trace: of presence, of movement, and of the ongoing return between the human and the natural.