This image is part of a photographic series on burnout. I chose to represent this downward spiral through endless staircases. Here, the circular, dark movement symbolizes the gradual exhaustion, the feeling of going in circles, of constantly descending without seeing a way out.

The dark center evokes that point of no return where the purpose and meaning of what we do become indistinguishable. The contrast with the white, almost clinical, emphasizes isolation — the erasure of self in a routine that consumes.

It’s a visual reminder of that moment when, by doing too much, we end up losing ourselves.