This work originates from an endless cycle of trying to reach the next version of myself, an almost religious self-obsession. It revolves around an uncertain self-image, where I move between wanting to become more, become less, and trying to understand what \u2018I\u2019 am. Each adjustment becomes a way of managing the friction between who I experience myself to be and the one who is more easily accepted.<\/p>\n
Through the process, I approach the body as something that can be broken down and reshaped. In this, a tension arises between control and dissolution, where the search for a fixed identity constantly slips away.<\/p>\n
The mirror is both my friend and my enemy, a place where a distorted self-image takes form. In the mirror, a space emerges for obsession and worship, hatred and love. The mirrors have skeletons, claws and teeth. They are a Rorschach test. They are people and identities.<\/p>\n
It would be so easy to give up my humanity.
\nTo become a thing among things.
\nTo escape carrying the consequences of a heart that beats too hard or too little.
\nTo escape the responsibility that comes with being alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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