Collective Arrival
This work is a series of collages composed from images of places where land meets arrival - symbolic locations where people have disembarked, waited, hoped, and crossed for a new future. Each collage fractures a familiar landscape, using many images of the same place layered and interrupted. The result is a re-formed landscape: broken yet intact.
By stitching together photographs of arrival points for common migration routes, sourced from public platforms, I reconstruct these locations not as seamless panoramas but as fragmented surfaces. These fractured views are left intentionally visible and flawed, like scars or memories, inviting the viewer to not just see a place, but the many lenses through which it is experienced.
I am intrigued by the way different ideologies, our beliefs on what’s right and wrong based on hierarchical positions and ‘normal’ environments, doesn’t only shape how we think but how we navigate the world both physically and mentally. This project questions how perception becomes place, and how repetition of image cements a narrative. Fragmentation becomes a form of community through the depictions of many points of views to create one unified subject. It becomes a quiet superpower practiced through listening, collecting, and seeing new perspectives.