The title “A Flaw in the Iris” refers to that small, subtle distortion in perception — a crack in the gaze.
A Flaw in the Iris explores moments where perception slips — when something ordinary takes on an unexpected emotional weight, or reality feels slightly misaligned. These are not dramatic events, but subtle disruptions: quiet, in-between scenes that carry a sense of tension, stillness, or disorientation.
The work comes from a personal space, though not in a directly autobiographical way. It reflects a recurring feeling — of being slightly removed from things, of watching rather than participating. In those moments, the world doesn’t lose meaning, but it shifts — becoming harder to define, yet somehow more present.
I’m drawn to images that feel paradoxical: emotionally charged, but ambiguous. There’s a kind of dream logic to them — not surreal, exactly, but shaped by the internal landscape as much as the external one. A place, a gesture, or a fragment of something familiar might become a container for uncertainty or a stand-in for something unspoken.
Through this work, I’m thinking about what it means to be in a state of suspension — to not know what comes next, or even how to fully name where you are. But also, how within that space, something quietly true can still emerge — something that feels, if not comforting, then at least honest.
These photographs are a way of acknowledging that feeling, of holding it still long enough to look at it more closely.
