UNCONSCIOUS

Sofia’s path into photography began in the commercial field, but after several years she made a deliberate shift toward a more introspective and personal approach.

Parallel to her visual work, she studied psychology, drawn by the same questions that now shape her images: how consciousness forms, how identity dissolves, and how the unconscious quietly structures our perception of reality.

What draws you to the arts?

Art touches what we often cannot name or fully understand. It becomes a portal to new emotions, reflections, and awakenings, both about ourselves and the world around us.

What do you like best about this project?

Different symbols intertwine, forming one image, each detail part of a greater whole.

The series presented here unfolds as a meditation on hidden layers — of nature, of the self, of existence itself. Forests, undergrowth, wooden structures, and open landscapes appear not as neutral backdrops but as symbolic origins: places of memory, instinct, and continuity. Nature is treated as both witness and participant, a living archive that holds traces of what came before us.

Recurring throughout the series is the female figure, often faceless, reflected, or partially obscured by mirrors. These mirrors are not decorative props; they act as thresholds. By withholding a fixed identity, Sofia shifts attention away from the individual and toward a more universal condition. The reflected body becomes a conduit between presence and absence, matter and spirit, self-awareness and dissolution.

Visually, the work balances stillness and tension. Soft natural light filters through dense environments, while reflective surfaces fracture space and perspective. The images feel quietly staged, symbols accumulate slowly — mirrors, forests, shadows, fragments — forming a visual language where each element is part of a larger, interconnected whole.

At its core, this project reflects on coexistence: how we are shaped by the environments we inhabit, and how we, in turn, project meaning onto them. Identity here is fluid, porous, and inseparable from history, memory, and the unconscious forces that precede rational thought.

For Sofia, art functions as a portal — a way to approach what resists clear definition. It opens emotional and psychological spaces that cannot be fully articulated, only experienced. Her work does not offer answers. It invites a pause, a quiet confrontation with the layered reality we move through every day, often without noticing.

As Carl Gustav Jung wrote: “The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will.”

Sofia’s images stand precisely at that door.