Close-up of a person's hand with visible wrinkles, holding an object in a dark environment with low lighting.

roads

The body as terrain. The choice to walk it.

We carry our life within us — written into skin, mapped in lines, recorded in the texture of what we have lived through. Seen close enough, the body stops being a body and becomes terrain. Lines become roads. A single mark becomes a point on a map someone has carried their whole life, unaware.

Roads moves through three ways of seeing this — from above, where the body is a continent; from the ground, where skin holds the weight of every step; and from within, through the eye and breath that return us to the present.

Life is a road. It doesn't move on its own — you have to decide to walk it. These fifteen images are my life: not a story about arriving somewhere, but about what it means to be on the way.

Black and white close-up of skin with a central vertical crease and a single mole, resembling a road running through terrain
Black and white close-up of a curved body contour with a dark mole beside a long crease, framed by shadow
Black and white macro of soft skin folds and creases meeting in a shadowed valley, resembling a worn folded map
Black and white photograph of a rounded body form rising out of darkness into soft light
Black and white photograph of two limbs crossing diagonally, their intersection forming an X against a grey background
Black and white macro photograph of skin folds forming valley-like shadows and ridges
Black and white macro of hairy skin with a pale scar crossing it, resembling a worn path through dry grassland
Black and white close-up of taut, textured skin descending like a hillside, with faint lines crossing the surface
Soft-focus black and white image of deep skin folds converging into a narrow passage between light and shadow
Black and white macro of a bent finger with dense wrinkled texture, one side in light and one in shadow
Black and white close-up of rippled skin folds crossing in waves of light and shadow
Black and white photograph of a wrinkled knuckle rising in the foreground against a blurred arm, like a peak before a mountain range
Black and white close-up of a closed eye with lashes and brow catching the light, cheek emerging from deep shadow
Black and white portrait fragment of a nose and bearded chin lit against near-total darkness
Black and white photograph of an ear emerging from shadow above a softly lit shoulder