Each image in Dark Root marks a moment in my personal history. Yet none of these moments is actually depicted. What remains is something peripheral — a place, an object, a light, a fragment of landscape that happened to be there.

Together, the images form an indirect diary, a private chronology whose events remain invisible. The photographs do not describe what happened; they preserve what happened to be there. Things that may have been incidental at the time become markers, carrying within them the trace of something they cannot reveal.

What is visible becomes the surface of something else: an experience that remains outside the frame, somewhere before or after the image, behind it or beyond it.