An ongoing project.
Roots explores belonging and resilience through the visual dialogue between uprooted plants and displaced people, examining how history, land, and identity intertwine.
The work confronts forced migration and the commodification of cultural heritage. Drawing parallels between Native American and Ukrainian experiences of displacement, it opens dialogue about colonization, war, cultural erasure**,** and their reverberations across generations.
The photographs are transformed through mixed media interventions, such as stitching and tactile layering, embedding texture and memory into each narrative.
Roots captures moments where struggle meets endurance, in both nature and human experience. It meditates on how identity persists: despite upheaval, roots seek their native soil, shaping the futures we inherit and create.
