Gazing Series began at a time when everything fell apart—losing my job, going through a breakup, and living in isolation during the pandemic, with no movement, no visitors, and no clear sense of direction. What remained was the quiet: my studio, my body, and the objects around me.

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In that stillness, attention shifted. Everyday things—walls, surfaces, minor details—began to hold weight. Through sustained looking, these objects moved from background to presence, forming a reciprocal relationship between observer and observed. The video brings together 20 frames; each frame pairs two images—one of an object as it appears to “gaze” back, and one of myself in relation to it, returning that gaze—accompanied by sound. Drawing on ideas of relational perception and the temporality of attention, the work considers how isolation, privacy, and duration can produce new forms of intimacy with one’s surroundings, where meaning is slowly formed through time, awareness, and proximity.

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This sound-photo-video work was exhibited at Mississauga Art Gallery, And during Contact Photography Festival with Street Art Toronto on the Fence ,and Sahar Bolouki Gallery