I spent years observing how people try to build a sense of self through surfaces, lifestyle, and image. Distance made it clear that most performance comes from a hunger to be seen as something before becoming it internally.

What looked like content was study. What looked like lifestyle was perspective. I was observing the gap between the image people build and the self they are trying to reach.

Documenting became a way to understand longing, the quiet hunger beneath performance. The past was not a career. It was preparation for clarity.