_project: black swan

(2024 - 2025)

During a period of loneliness, I found myself drawn to the swans near my home in Berlin, a daily habit that became a kind of anchor. Over the course of a year, I returned again and again, always photographing the same swans. With time, I started to embrace technical imperfections such as overexposure, motion blur, digital noise as a visual language of disappearance.

The title gestures toward Malevich’s Black Square: a void, a zero point. But where his abstraction turned toward geometry, Black Swan remains rooted in the natural world. It’s not a rejection of nature, but a distillation. Stripping away detail and withholding clarity so that something else might emerge. Sitting somewhere between presence and absence, between control and accident, the series attempts to explore the interplay between what’s real, what’s felt, and what’s imagined.