“a soft disorder” is a visual exploration of my adolescent self’s interior life as an immigrant. In 1999, my family and I arrived to the US, in a small Midwest town, from Eastern Europe. The impressions of that time have remained fragmented and elusive. Guided by those loose, incomplete memories, and inspired by revisiting that same town fifteen years after leaving it, I photographed familiar streets, fading buildings, people that reminded me of my own innocence, and private moments that echo both nostalgia and dissonance. Through these images, I seek to re-experience the emotions of displacement and belonging—using photography as a language shaped by those very feelings. In doing so, I create a space where memory and image converge, inviting viewers into the uncertain terrain of memory, un-belonging, and “home.”