Blood Prints

This series of photograms explores the physicality of blood as a representation of self, using its material presence in the dark room to challenge the viewer’s perception of identity and body. By removing its familiar color, the work questions whether the absence of red elevates it beyond associations of violence or strips it of its visceral impact entirely.

At its core, the series is an experiment—both in medium and meaning. It investigates the tension between opacity and transparency, considering how density and dilution shape the legibility of the mark. The compositions engage with movement, exploring how blood disperses, pools, and interacts with its own droplets and panes of glass. Is it a trace, a gesture, a ghost of the body? Or does it become something wholly detached from its origin, a study in abstraction rather than an extension of the self?

Through this process, the work invites an open-ended dialogue between materiality and interpretation, confronting the viewer with a duality: the deeply personal made distant, the biological rendered aesthetic, and the familiar transformed into something uncertain.