Since 2023, I have been working on several photo series, exploring how we communicate and the personas we adopt on social media.

The series Self-portrait with Mask I - VI, delves into the visual language of Emoticons and what they conceal and reveal. I deliberately don't work with digital image processing, but instead proceed in the most old-fashioned way by “de- digitizing” the emojis, so to speak, printing them out on paper and then sticking them on my face. They represent individual statements or form entire sentences and commands when combined.

Emojis encapsulate or accentuate virtual messages (such as hearts), act as a digital tribunal (thumbs up or down), are often used in sexting (like the eggplant or peach emojis), and even for ordering drugs (using emojis like the brown heart or dragon).

Additionally, there are Emoticon alphabets of their own, such as that of the Chinese phone app WeChat, which includes a soldier emoji.