I am not growing up within myself — I am growing up in projection. In how I am imagined, how I’m supposed to sound, look, get tired, live. But what if my growing up is not a path toward an authentic self, but a gradual integration into images I never chose?

In this project, the color blue becomes a space for exploring that integration. Following Michel Pastoureau, who points out that blue is the most popular color among adults, I ask: why blue? Is it a choice, or a soft cultural inertia? Blue is not an emotion but a backdrop of expectations: cold, restrained, dignified, composed.

We are growing up during a war — rapidly, unevenly, often unconsciously. This experience is hard to normalize, hard to fit into familiar frameworks — and yet we are constantly asked to do just that. To be composed, quiet, functional. To conform. And blue is precisely about that act of conforming.