In this body of work, I explore the space between the familiar and the unfamiliar. I invite strangers into my studio and photograph them, then combine their portraits with images of botanical elements from places that feel like home to me. Through multiple exposures, these separate realities merge into a single image.

The strangers and the landscapes are brought into direct visual dialogue. One represents something unknown and external; the other carries memory, attachment, and personal history. When layered together, the images create a subtle tension, an encounter between presence and place, distance and intimacy.

The use of instant film gives the images a physical presence. Each exposure becomes a small, singular object, almost like a relic of memory. When layered through multiple exposures, different moments are fused together on the same surface, allowing separate realities to coexist within one frame.

In the end, the series reflects on how we carry our own sense of home while encountering the unknown, and how these encounters quietly shape who we are.