“The Water and Salt That Built Her” explores a transitional state in which one must be submerged in order to recognize the weight of what is being carried -and to learn how to live.

The series opens in a fragile harmony between body and veil. They seem compatible, almost necessary. But as the sequence unfolds, the veil begins to obstruct the body: it restricts breath, vision, and movement. Still, she holds on. She tries to release it, but cannot. She is nearly drowned by what she carries, yet continues to struggle -because she wants to live.

Only when she accepts the weight of this burden, and recognizes the moment to move forward can she finally let it go and begin to exist freely.

Here, water and salt embody everything that has shaped her: tears, sea, memory, and endurance.

She does not emerge purified, but reassembled -reclaiming her identity by gathering herself in fragments.

This is the story of a woman formed by water, by resistance, and ultimately, by her own becoming.

Sometimes we recognize the meaning of what we carry only when we are on the edge of losing ourselves. Sometimes, only life-shaking moments allow us to release the weight of the past and step into the life we are meant to live.

This work is my visual interpretation of that state — the moment that reshapes us.