“Paradise” is a convention, something unreachable - a parallel, utopic world in which perfection and beauty are superior. With this project, I want to play with the idea of subjectivity as regards paradise, or how our subjective visions can be imposed on the notion of an “ideal place”. As someone who lives abroad, my paradise is the possibility of being in more than one place at the same time. Here, I use collage as a tool to explore the boundaries of photography as a medium, with the limitations and richness of the frame as a white canvas that we fill with images and meanings. ​I also associate paradise with memory, childhood, and dreams. As children, we thought of paradise as a fantasy full of dreams. As we grow up, we become less innocent and more skeptic, but, even though a mature paradise focuses more on other ideals like professional achievements, endless love and success, this infantine idea of an ideal place is still there, somewhere. With these photographs, I aspire to bring back this incorruptibility and to reconstruct that place again; the purity of a child, coupled with my own experience. 
 Nothing here is random: The images you see were pre-composed in my head, then translated into a frame to create multifaceted stories about the place(s) we call paradise.