In the wake of a life-changing electrical accident in 2010—which left me with severe burns, eight fractures, and brain trauma—I returned to self-portrait photography as a creative container for healing and intimate documentation. I began while still in the hospital.

Despite the memory loss caused by amnesia—and not remembering how the accident happened—I share my story through my body, intuitively. Photography became a way to reconnect with life and with the memory held in the body, in a poetic and soulful way.

I consider stories to be sacred. I prefer to feel my way through stillness—not needing to understand or know—quieting the noise in my head by listening deeply to my body.

My photographic journey began in hospital and continued in Iran (2010–11), Spain, France, and Scotland. In these landscapes, I sought healing through movement, connection to nature, and my ancestral roots. Within the safety of my practice, I’ve learned to lean into new experiences, sensations, and emotions—responding intuitively, sometimes in a primal way, to each place, object, and encounter.

After the accident, it felt as though a reset button had been pressed. With no choice but to surrender, I stepped into the unknown with only my creative tools—and the grounding presence of Mother Earth.

There was relief in being able to share such intimate experiences through images—especially when I had no words. This contradicted the isolation I often felt. The catharsis I experienced through sharing these images led to more public forms of experimentation, including performance. It began at the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival in 2012, in a repurposed train station-turned-gallery. There, I delved into embodied storytelling—using light, texture, and my felt sense to interact with space and embrace my body as the artwork.

Throughout this raw, soulful journey of retrieval, I have ventured both physically and spiritually—reconnecting with my body, and with my many identities. Through this work, I continue to challenge ideas of beauty, while cultivating personal liberation and transformation through the power of self-expression.