Life and Land series, 2025

In this ongoing series, I explore war through staged photographs and photo-collages built from everyday objects, toy soldiers, museum spaces, and fragments of lived environments. Games, strategies, and symbols replace bodies, revealing how violence is abstracted, normalized, and inherited.
Working with metaphor rather than documentation, I trace a progression from strategy to intrusion, from normalization to technological escalation. Land appears not as territory, but as a silent witness — the surface upon which loss, memory, and responsibility are repeatedly inscribed. 

Ultimately, this work arrives at a conclusion that feels unavoidable to me: war is metaphysical. It is not a conflict between people, but a struggle between forces within them. And the opposite of war is not peace—it is love.