My practice explores themes of displacement, memory, home, and nostalgia, grounded in my personal experience of migration and the loss of home. Working with digital, analog photography, as well as moving image, archival material, and found objects, I examine the emotional traces of lost places and shifting identities. Through intuitive image making, I seek to reflect on belonging, absence, and the persistence of memory, creating work that connects personal history with broader notions of place and time. My latest work for my FYP, titled ‘Where My Shadow Still Lingers’ is a personal journey back to my homeland, Latvia, revisiting places that carry deep emotional significance and memory. I am inspired by one of the greatest Russian filmmakers, Andrei Tarkovsky, who was also a muse for my thesis titled: 'Temporal Echoes: Nostalgia in Tarkovsky’s Cinematic Landscape'.
