his body of work uses "opportunity cost"—an economic principle—as a lens for deeply personal experiences through the intimate archive of a multi-year journey. starting with how diaspora functions geographically as a system of trade-offs, it grows into an exploration of life's other economics: family, love, work, religion, and friendship.

the work integrates three textual archives: the author's journal entries (2017-2024), his mother's grocery lists, and his therapist's session notes. shot across three continents, the 25 final images were selected from 1,296 exposures, embodying the project's central tension: belonging and distance, celebration and loss, connection and isolation, individual choice and collective identity. the work settles at contentment while refusing the pull of regret. regret cannot hit a moving target.