Barbara

'Barbara' is an ongoing project I started in January of 2021. Barbara is a woman with her passions, secrets, dreams, and insecurities. Her surreal world keeps dragging me in and sometimes unexplainable happens. With the intention of working on the project for a year, I attempted to do at least one shoot per month. Through Barbara, I tried to perceive things I didn't fully understand. Throughout the months, Barbara grew and altered, becoming a more personal figure to me. Sometimes I felt like I was hiding behind her mask, envisioning myself as someone else in certain respects and often I immersed myself in her character and used dressing up as a form of escapism. It's as if I am in a theatre, where I am the writer, director, actor and costume designer, and a character who expresses and lives through genuine feelings.