RECLAIMING MY POWER
This project is a personal journey of reclaiming my voice from the silence of childhood abuse. At six, I was too small to speak. I return as a creator, transforming pain into strength. Each image holds fragments of fear, resilience, and becoming. This is not just remembering, it’s rewriting. I gather the fractured parts of my past to show that even the deepest wounds can be reimagined into something that breathes with power. This work stands as both a testament to survival and an offering of hope.
VIOLENCE OF WITNESSING
This project explores the weight of witnessing suffering, standing at the edge of violence, unable to act yet unable to turn away. Through layered imagery and stark contrasts, it traces how the knowledge of harm seeps into memory and body, blurring the line between observer and participant. These are not images of violence, but of its echo: the moral and emotional burden carried by the witness. The work asks whether witnessing is solidarity or silent complicity, holding the gaze on what we might prefer to look away from.
Bound & Becoming explores womanhood in Bangladesh, its inherited restrictions, unspoken expectations, and quiet revolutions. Through self-portraiture, I use my body as both subject and symbol to trace the tension between tradition and transformation. “Bound” reflects the cultural and societal forces that shape women’s identities; “Becoming” is the act of resisting and redefining them. This work is both personal and collective, reclaiming space and voice while revealing womanhood as an evolving force, bound, yet always becoming.
BOUND AND BECOMING
I CONTAIN MULTITUDES
Media: self portraits, adhesive, foam board
24" x 12"
This sculptural 3D piece began with my own self-portraits, fragmented and reassembled to reflect the layered nature of identity. Inspired by the line, “Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes),” from Walt Whitman, the work resists singular definitions.
It speaks to the idea that a person does not have to fit into one category or remain consistent to be whole. We hold contradictions, shifts, and complexities within us. Through form, texture, and space, this piece explores how identity expands and collapses, how we embody many selves at once.
FRACTURED PERFUME
Media: colored paper, adhesive, magazine, rose petals, tracing paper, sketch pen
10.25" x 8.25"
Inspired by Ruben Frejo’s collage published in the "Cut Me Up" magazine issue 14. I decided to work directly on top of it to develop a fragmented yet harmonious essence reflecting both visual composition and the transient nature of fragrance. I added the yellow lines to act as veins of disruption. They cut through colors and texts, just like the way external influences distort a pure aroma. I tried to create an interplay of curved and rigid edges that reflects how fragrances, emotions and memories are often fractured and reshaped by our experiences. I created a coexistence of beauty and interruption to translate the delicate yet unpredictable journey of a fragrance.
LINES & LIGHT
Lines and Light is a visual exploration of structure, balance, and perception. Drawing inspiration from the radical clarity of the Bauhaus movement, this montage project examines how geometry and illumination can shape emotional and spatial experience. By layering architectural fragments, linear forms, and precise beams of light, the work seeks to distill complexity into clarity.
The compositions resist ornamentation and instead focus on the quiet dialogue between form and void, movement and stillness. Each line becomes a structural gesture; each light, a way of seeing. Through this interplay, “Lines and Light” invites viewers to consider how modernist ideals continue to echo, shifting from rigid function to poetic abstraction. It is both homage and reinterpretation, where the language of Bauhaus is not repeated but reimagined.
THE QUIET MESS
This still life gathers fragments of my own memories : a teddy bear, a small television, biscuits, scattered chocolate, crumpled paper, wooden blocks, and a half-cut tennis ball. A cockroach crawls through the scene, unsettling the quiet nostalgia. Drawing from the tradition of Dutch and Flemish still-life painting, I used familiar objects as carriers of layered meaning. Childhood comfort meets quiet decay; innocence is interrupted by impermanence. The scattered composition reflects the tension between presence and absence, turning everyday objects into a contemporary vanitas, a meditation on memory, solitude, and the traces we leave behind.
