Serenity2019 - ongoing
Serenity is a photographic project that documents my personal discomfort with my own existence. By intentionally placing myself back into situations that once unsettled me, I chose to confront and re-experience the emotional shifts they provoked. Through this process, I observed subtle transformations that reflect fleeting psychological movements as they surfaced and dissolved. These transient states are rendered in static, ambiguous images, where clarity gives way to atmosphere. The photographs become traces of a passage from tension toward a fragile sense of relief.

I regard this project as a self-imposed experiment, a sequence of reactionary gestures born from deliberate actions. Although each photograph isolates a singular frozen instant, I believe life unfolds as a continuous current rather than as a series of fragments. Serenity attempts to reconcile this paradox. By revisiting moments of unease, I reconstruct the emotional continuity that connects them. In doing so, I create a space to confront discomfort not as an obstacle, but as a necessary path toward a more peaceful self.

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