This series of portraits invites a meditation on the nature of the encounter, fleeting, uncertain, and forever incomplete. At the heart of these images is a question: is it ever truly possible to see another person? To glimpse their true face, their true colours? Or is what we encounter always filtered through projection and desire, obscured by masks, masks worn willingly, unconsciously, or imposed by time and perception? And if we lift the mask, what lies beneath? A face, or simply another mask?
The figures in Now You See Me are not static subjects but shifting presences. With every glance, they seem to change. The face becomes a site of endless becoming, a kaleidoscope of selves, never stable, never final.
The title plays with recognition and illusion. Now You See Me implies clarity, yet the ‘Me’ remains ambiguous, elusive, always on the edge of vanishing. It is a reflection on memory and femininity, but also on the impossibility of truly seeing the other. What is visible may be only the surface of something deeper, something unknowable, ever changing, and just beyond reach.
London, July 2025
