2024-2025 Thesis Project
Where Healing Begins

This body of work explores how suppressed emotions and unhealed wounds manifest in dreams. While we may consciously push away painful memories, our subconscious refuses to forget. In sleep, emotions resurface—distorted, fragmented, and unavoidable. Through stark black-and-white photography, this series visualizes the tension between repression and revelation, immersing the viewer in a space where shadows and fractured imagery mirror inner turmoil.

The subjects in these photographs exist in a dreamlike state—restrained, exposed, and distorted. Their expressions and gestures reflect the struggle of confronting buried fears and emotions. Some figures seem trapped, unable to break free, while others meet the viewer’s gaze directly, as if challenging them to face what they, too, have hidden. Light and shadow play a crucial role, symbolizing the duality of avoidance and acknowledgment.

Rather than presenting dreams as mere illusions, Where Healing Begins suggests they are a necessary step toward self-discovery. Dreams confront us with what we’ve suppressed, but in doing so, they offer an opportunity for transformation. This series encourages viewers to engage with their own subconscious, to question what lingers beneath the surface, and to recognize that true healing starts with facing, rather than avoiding, the unresolved.

By standing before these images, the viewer becomes part of the process—immersed in the same tension between fear and revelation. In confronting what haunts us, we begin the journey toward healing.

2024-2025 Thesis Project Where Healing Begins

2024-2025 Thesis Project
Where Healing Begins