Excess, Aura, Transcendence
Photo : Linda Zhengová
Emerging within a moment of societal decay, I started a new project: an ongoing research into creative, sexual, psychological, and spiritual transformation. I’m interested in moments of transcendence, pure bliss or pure hell, and how those extremes can coexist. I move between bodies and thresholds — psychiatric spaces, brothels, dance studios, places where reason collapses. I see madness not as a pathology, but as a brief access to freedom.
Rather than using photography to describe reality, I try to push the medium toward invocation. The images do not aim to explain or document, but to summon states. Photography becomes a way of witnessing passages where language and optics fail. Bataille wrote about three eroticisms: of the body, the heart, and the sacred. I orbit them all. I want to capture the aura that flickers when the self dissolves, when ecstasy burns through the social body and touches the divine…
