The work All Things Laid Dormant reflects on how humans relate to other animal species and on the roles non-human life occupies within both personal and collective imagination. It considers coexistence across species, as well as the possibility of rethinking kinship, proximity and intimacy in a time marked by mass extinction and ecological fragility.

Structured through a series of encounters with the non-human world, the project is shaped by photography’s inherent ambiguity—at once enabling connection and introducing distance. Images become sites where contact is suggested but never fully resolved, oscillating between presence and separation.

The work unfolds as both tribute and elegy: an expression of care and grief that acknowledges loss while searching for forms of belonging within a damaged and unstable environment. It frames photography as a space where attention, mourning and relational thinking can coexist.