This project situates Polaroid photography at its core, investigating how language shapes a sense of belonging, and how identity drifts in uncertainty when language fails to name, comprehend, or convey the self. I have grown up navigating multiple geographies and tongues: born in Henan, with family roots in Shanxi, yet fluent in neither dialect; later, in Boston, English briefly conferred a sense of “being there,” yet such belonging was always provisional, fragile, liable to collapse at any moment. I understand “aphasia” not as mere silence, but as a structural condition: a state in which language ceases to anchor the self, leaving one unmoored from the world’s order. When the ties between words and things loosen, belonging becomes equally unstable. Through Polaroid emulsion transfers, I detach images from their original supports, peeling, fragmenting, and reattaching them onto black oceanic panels and easels. In this transformation, the images lose precise reference, becoming like words severed from language—fragments suspended between appearance and disappearance, tracing my ongoing presence within uncertainty.