The series Man is a lighthouse to a man grew out of a reflection on how people meet each other — how closeness forms, shifts, and is shaped through contact. It focuses on invisible boundaries that structure relationships and influence how we approach, understand, and respond to one another. Boundaries are often understood as barriers that separate people, yet here they can also be understood as points of awareness — moments where perception sharpens through relation.

The work is built through temporary paper collages that are constructed, photographed, and then dismantled. Each composition exists only during its making. The photograph remains as the only trace of a transient arrangement between material, light, and action. I approach paper not only as a material, but as something that behaves like a relationship: responsive, unstable, and continually altered through contact.

I return to the idea of the lighthouse not as a symbol of guidance or rescue, but as a condition of visibility. Visibility is produced through relation rather than isolation. Just as a lighthouse briefly illuminates part of a landscape without altering it, the presence of another person can change how we perceive something that was already there.

The series does not trace a single narrative. Each photograph emerges from a different encounter, producing distinct configurations of proximity, distance, and visibility.