Digital collage (sourced from my own photo library).

This is the most consciously political work I’ve made. Autonomous is about body autonomy, about control and destruction, about what it means to exist as a woman in a country where that existence feels increasingly under siege.

I have always worked with demolition imagery—it's the raw material I have, but it’s also a landscape coded as masculine, one of power, force, and erasure. In this series, I bring women into that space, forcing a marriage between softness and violence, beauty and ruin. But in this context, marriage feels like the wrong word. It is not always harmonious. Sometimes, it is unsettling. Sometimes, the women look like they were always there. Sometimes, they look like they were never meant to be.

Maybe this work is an answer to something I haven’t fully asked. Maybe it is a confrontation. Either way, it insists on being seen.