Paula Punkstina

What occurs when we shed layers of our former personality? Liminal Compressions examines the fluidity of identity, questioning the dissolution and reconstruction of the self. Rather than viewing identity as a fixed substance, it explores existentialist frameworks of being, reflecting on the body, resistance, and erasure. To exist is to be engaged in a process of becoming; to survive is to adapt.

Using fawns as a symbol of innocence and the self, the project challenges notions of permanence, exploring the transitional state between presence and absence. Through the deconstruction of the subject, I search for moments where the self disintegrates, yet persists in altered forms, questioning whether death signifies total erasure or a shift in being.