Labyrinth of Growth
Size: 6*8in
Materials: 35mm Film Camera, Print, Clay
Year of work: 2025
Description:
Labyrinth of Growth reflects on intimacy and belonging within conditions of migration, displacement, and shifting identity. The root-like sculptural frame transforms the photograph into more than an image—it becomes a threshold between memory and present, private and public. The entwined forms gesture toward the complexity of closeness, where support and entrapment, care and vulnerability coexist. Within the layered imagery, plants and water merge into unstable landscapes, echoing the fragile attempts to “settle” in moments of drift and dislocation.
The work resonates with broader questions of how queer and migrant lives negotiate the meaning of “home” when permanence is uncertain and identities are continually redefined. Here, the domestic becomes a museum of intimate gestures, carrying traces of memory, loss, and survival. In its instability, Labyrinth of Growth reimagines belonging not as fixed or linear, but as an ongoing process of entanglement—an aesthetic of resistance that embraces failure, non-linearity, and coexistence as forms of wisdom.