Temp.

Temp. is an ongoing project about intimacy and the possibilities of visual communication. At the age of nine, I was diagnosed with color blindness. That realization that the world extends beyond what I can perceive has continually shaped how I understand images and meaning. The feeling of being submerged in an incomprehensible world prompted me to question how we communicate through vision and whether images can evoke sensations beyond sight. To explore this, I use a compact thermal camera to capture the heat radiating from people and objects. I record my friends' body temperature and often focus on their hands, or on scenes I have staged by heating up materials to create illusory patterns of warmth. By translating temperature into color, I attempt to push perception beyond the visual toward touch and empathy. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, physical contact has become charged with new meaning. Simple gestures like shaking hands or hugging now carry both intimacy and risk. Through thermal images, I seek to look beyond the visible surface and to see presence as something felt rather than observed. The title Temp refers to both temperature and temporality, a reminder of the fragile and transient condition of human connection, especially when we look back at the pandemic era.