This series was born out of a quiet urgency — the kind you feel when something’s ending, and you know it needs to be honored before it disappears. I wanted to make these portraits of Sasha (Oleksandr Pinchuk) — artist, friend, co-creator — before he left for Paris. After years of working side by side, sharing a workshop, building projects like The Hero in You, Soft Empowerment, and our strange little adventure inside the metal dome at Rotterdam Art Week, it was time for both of us to find out who we are apart.

I’ll miss him — of course I will. The conversations, the tension, the inspiration, the quiet knowing that someone gets it. But I also know this departure is right. For him, for me. A friendship that sharpens your edges also teaches you when to let go.

Dualism is both an ending and a beginning. It’s the closing chapter of a shared space and the opening line of a different way of working — separately, but still somehow connected. These images carry the echo of our time together, and the clarity that comes when you finally step into your own space, alone but not lonely.