There is a moment in a man’s life - a midpoint, a precipice - when the path behind him begins to seem more fixed than the one ahead. This moment is neither entirely a crisis nor a revelation, but a quiet pressure, a shifting of internal ground. My project began in that space: not with a clear concept, but with a feeling of dislocation, of solitude, of needing to strip away the roles I had performed and the identities I had worn. I turned to the camera not to document a transformation, but to initiate one. And I turned it on myself.

These photographs are nude self-portraits taken in nature - acts of looking, being seen, and reclaiming presence in the midst of a transitional life stage. The images are not about performance, seduction, or aesthetics. They are about the body as a vessel of time and memory, the skin as both boundary and bridge. The camera, in this work, becomes a ritual object - witness, confessor, mirror. It allows me to stand alone, naked and unguarded, in landscapes that reflect back not only my physical form but something older and deeper: an archetype, a pattern, a silent myth.

Midlife is often marked by fragmentation. The early ambitions fade or shift; roles - father, partner, worker - define us more narrowly; the body begins to assert its age. There is a subtle grief in this, but also a strange liberation. What lies beneath the performed self? What remains when we remove the scripts we've memorized? This project is a search for that essential layer - both personal and universal. I wanted to see what might emerge when I shed the armor of clothing, control, and cultural expectation and placed myself vulnerably within the larger rhythms of earth, water, wind, and light.