Mapping the Invisible: Traces of My DNA explores the relationship between ancestry, memory, and self-perception.

The series originated from a DNA test that revealed multiple geographic origins within my genetic heritage. Rather than treating these results as answers, I approached them as questions. What does it mean to belong to a place you have never lived? How do inherited histories shape the way we see ourselves? And can identity ever be reduced to a map, a nationality, or a percentage?

In response, I transformed genetic information into a visual language of color, self-portraiture, and abstraction. My body becomes both subject and site of investigation, a surface onto which histories, memories, and imagined connections are projected.

The works move between scientific classification and personal experience. While DNA can reveal fragments of where we come from, it cannot explain who we are. Identity exists beyond data. It is shaped by family stories, migration, memory, culture, loss, and lived experience.

Mapping the Invisible reflects on the limits of categorization and proposes identity as something layered, fluid, and continually in motion. Not a fixed origin, but an evolving constellation of connections that extends beyond what can be measured or seen.