An evolving project tracing the changing contours of a self. Through shifting materials and ideas, it asks what it means to be someone and whether we can ever truly know ourselves or each other. 20052025
Stages of Sori (SoS) is a lifelong, open-ended artistic inquiry into the self—and the idea of the self—through evolving media, theories, and environments. What began as a personal investigation gradually unfolded into something broader and ongoing: an attempt to explore not only who I am as an individual, but what it means to be someone at all.
Each stage of this project reflects a distinct period of my life, shaped by its specific conditions: academic, personal, and material. These stages are not only chronological but epistemological; they signal shifts in my understanding of how meaning is formed, how identities are constructed, and how inner lives are (mis)translated into outer forms.
The project assumes that the self is always partially unknowable, split between conscious and unconscious forces. Art-making offers a provisional space for approaching this unknowability. The camera, once considered a “superficial other,” became a method of both projection and introspection. Later, in my MA, I deliberately moved away from photographic processes to work with sculptural materials, while reflecting on intersubjectivity, friendship, and the impossibility of fully sharing one’s inner world.
“Sori,” a nickname and partial persona, allows the work to hover between autobiography and fiction. Though grounded in my own experiences, SoS resists a purely personal reading. Sori is me, but also someone. Each stage is a study of a self in context—shaped by tools, influenced by others, and driven by the desire to surmise.
Each stage carries forward the last, not in repetition, but in echo. More stages will follow, each shaped by new environments, mediums, and questions. Stages of Sori is an ongoing auto-theoretical experiment. It may shift in shape or emphasis as it grows. The direction won’t switch completely, but it won’t resist change.
Stages of Sori (SoS) is a lifelong, open-ended artistic inquiry into the self—and the idea of the self—through evolving media, theories, and environments. What began as a personal investigation gradually unfolded into something broader and ongoing: an attempt to explore not only who I am as an individual, but what it means to be someone at all.
Each stage of this project reflects a distinct period of my life, shaped by its specific conditions: academic, personal, and material. These stages are not only chronological but epistemological; they signal shifts in my understanding of how meaning is formed, how identities are constructed, and how inner lives are (mis)translated into outer forms.
The project assumes that the self is always partially unknowable, split between conscious and unconscious forces. Art-making offers a provisional space for approaching this unknowability. The camera, once considered a “superficial other,” became a method of both projection and introspection. Later, in my MA, I deliberately moved away from photographic processes to work with sculptural materials, while reflecting on intersubjectivity, friendship, and the impossibility of fully sharing one’s inner world.
“Sori,” a nickname and partial persona, allows the work to hover between autobiography and fiction. Though grounded in my own experiences, SoS resists a purely personal reading. Sori is me, but also someone. Each stage is a study of a self in context—shaped by tools, influenced by others, and driven by the desire to surmise.
Each stage carries forward the last, not in repetition, but in echo. More stages will follow, each shaped by new environments, mediums, and questions. Stages of Sori is an ongoing auto-theoretical experiment. It may shift in shape or emphasis as it grows. The direction won’t switch completely, but it won’t resist change.