Fabricated – Extended Reflection

Fabricated began with a quiet prompt: a single piece of fabric, handed to each subject, and the invitation to do something with it—without instruction, without expectation. What followed was an unfolding of instinct. Some wrapped themselves tightly, retreating inward. Others moved with the fabric—letting it billow, stretch, resist, or fall. The gesture was never the same.

That sameness of material—the constraint—became the very thing that revealed difference. It’s that contrast I find endlessly compelling. When the frame is the same for everyone, what begins to emerge is not uniformity, but individuality. Some people claim space. Some hesitate. Some transform the fabric into sculpture, others into shelter. In each reaction, a trace of the self surfaces.

Without spoken language or facial expression to lead us, the body becomes its own form of communication. Every movement, every stillness, becomes part of a quiet dialogue. The fabric serves as shield, stage, partner, or pressure—depending on what’s needed in that moment. It is both limitation and liberation.

This work isn’t about performance. It’s about what we reveal when we’re not asked to perform at all. It’s a slow invitation to respond honestly—to express without words, without roles, without a script. Sometimes what surfaces is control. Other times, surrender. And often, something unnameable in between.

Fabricated is an exercise in presence. It’s a study of instinct, vulnerability, and the way we each find our own shape in an undefined space.

Parts of this series have been exhibited at FotoNostrum in Barcelona (2022) and Bianco & Nero Expo in Hasselt, Belgium (2024), and were published in PhotoHouse Magazine and FotoNostrum Magazine.