Breaking Time is an ongoing series in which cultural icons appear behind broken glass, as if pressing from their own era into ours. The work treats portraiture not as simple representation, but as a study of presence — how an image can outlive a body, how a legend survives time, and why certain faces remain psychologically close even when they belong to another century.

The series was first introduced in 2024 as a tribute to icons of the past — figures whose impact has already been sealed into cultural memory. These early works explored timelessness: the feeling that some people never fully leave, because their image continues to circulate, inspire, and shape how we see the world.

In 2025, Breaking Time expanded to include living icons — individuals who are actively reshaping culture and rewriting history in real time. This shift added a new tension: not only what has survived time, but what is being written now. In this chapter, the series becomes less about distance and more about immediacy — about presence that is still unfolding.

Across both chapters, the central idea remains constant:
icons do not belong to one era.
They move through generations as cultural forces — carrying emotion, mythology, and influence beyond chronology. The broken glass functions as both barrier and threshold: a visible fracture that turns time into something physical, and transforms the portrait into an encounter. The viewer is placed directly in front of that rupture — close enough to feel the gaze, the pressure, and the sensation of a figure pushing through memory into the present moment.