MU:SE is a series of digitally manipulated photographic portraits, each presented as a unique edition.

The original photographs, taken five years ago, feature the same person. That person now exists elsewhere, in a life I no longer know. What remains are images that have been digitally reworked through successive layers, images that continue their transformation without ever returning to their original state.

This series extends my current research into post-photography, interrogating what an image becomes once it no longer functions as a faithful trace of reality. In this series, the muse is not a body, but a persistence. Once the connection is broken, the image detaches itself from its referent. It fragments, shifts, and recomposes itself within one’s memory until it becomes something else.

Each work is an archive. Not of what was seen, but of what has been retained, altered, and reinvented over time.

Absence is not a disappearance. It becomes the condition for another form of presence.