video work 2018 ~ 2022 ~ 2026 This work is one of my earliest self-portraits and marks the beginning of a long-term exploration of the self through image-making, the camera, and the practice of self-observation. The title references Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, yet here the portrait neither conceals time nor preserves youth. Instead, it becomes a site of transformation where identity continuously dissolves, multiplies, and reassembles itself. Through digital distortions, inversions, layered imagery, and flashes of light, the stability of the face is disrupted, turning it into a shifting mask. The work emerged from an inner need to reject imposed roles and normative expectations. It is a gesture of nonconformity—a desire to exist according to one’s own laws of time, sensitivity, and imagination. The self-portrait does not function as a fixed representation of the self, but as a space of negotiation between the visible and the hidden, between the social mask and the inner self. The Picture of Dorian Gray can be understood as an early manifesto of an artistic practice centered on memory, identity, embodiment, and the continuous reinvention of the self. The camera acts not as a tool of documentation, but as an alchemical device that allows a person to witness themselves in the process of transformation.