Roots of Absence unfolds in the fall landscape, where bare trees stand like quiet witnesses of what has been lost. A woman, a refugee from Ukraine, appears half fused with a tree, her body and the trunk sharing the same fragile stillness.

The image moves between human and nature, memory and matter. The absence of leaves mirrors the inner season of displacement: everything stripped back to its essential form, waiting for renewal.

Here, silence becomes language. The dialogue between skin and bark speaks of endurance, identity, and the invisible transformation that follows rupture.

Rather than depicting conflict, the work inhabits its echo, a meditative space where belonging, loss, and resilience intertwine.