My work originates from an identity that was never able to take shape during my childhood. While others move through a natural process of becoming, my years in foster care left me without any real possibility to experience, form, or grow into my boyhood. That absence — not as a longing for nostalgia, but as a fundamentally missing foundation — lies at the core of my artistic practice.

The world of boys before puberty is not a memory for me, but a point of reference: an image of a development I was never able, nor allowed, to undergo. Their effortless freedom, safety, and recognition confront me with an origin that was entirely denied to me. In my work I explore that distance in shared identity, not as weakness, but as an existential question of what identity still means when its basis has never been able to exist.