The images use fragmentation, contrast, and shifting points of focus to suggest narrative through association rather than sequence. Each frame offers multiple entry points, encouraging the eye to organize scattered details into relationships and consequences.
The project started with 1950s science fiction aesthetics in mind but gradually became something else. The stark contrasts and unstable compositions began to suggest systems under pressure, realities coming apart. The work found its own direction.
The accompanying texts guide that reading more directly, circling themes of institutional collapse, disinformation, and social fragmentation, while still leaving room for viewers to draw their own conclusions.
Essay written: May 2026
