The Story of How the Lizard Lost Its Legs is a photographic exploration of adaptation and transformation, weaving together science, myth, and speculation to question what it means to survive and evolve. Through a layered interplay of real and imaginary, it drifts between my own memory and borrowed fantasies. The work examines adaptation as both a necessity and a myth, exploring how we make sense of change through stories and images.
The title references the evolutionary shift from lizards to snakes, inviting the viewer to read the images with a question in mind: What are we willing to give up, as humans, in order to survive?Through a research-driven approach, the project weaves together scientific theories and imagined futures: the beginning of life through panspermia, the quiet transformations of evolution, and the future trajectories of climate change. The images trace these shifts, moving from natural to artificial, from terrestrial to extraterrestrial, imagining our place in a world that is both ancient and endlessly mediated.
By juxtaposing images, I seek to mirror the fractured, layered way knowledge is constructed in digital spaces. My own body, at times disjointed, occupies different spaces in this narrative, and eventually becomes merely a surveyed shadow.