VISUAL ARTWORKS COLLECTION
A study of emotional excess and stucknes
This project explores the multiplicity of a person’s self-definition. I use wearable masks to examine this division, showing how our idea of who we are can fragment. These masks have a dual function: they conceal who we truly are and represent the 'as-if' personality we adopt.
This division is critically intensified by reflections, the natural visual language of the train environment, which multiply and blur the boundaries of the self until reality is indistinguishable. The photographic result is a journey of the instability of self-perception. It raises the question: How many of I are there?
The series culminates with the photograph "Dissonance," which starkly breaks from the public setting and the mask device. This final image depicts the Default Option of the Self, revealed in isolation, bound by ropes and struggling for escape. This shift directly addresses the emotional cost of the mask-wearing: the performative self ultimately creates an inescapable internal trap and profound dissonance within the being.
Identity Diffusion
Identity diffusion refers to a state where a person has not yet formed a clear sense of self, and doesn’t seem committed to any particular identity, values, or direction.
Parallax of Me
Relative Motion of the Self
When individuals face chronic tension between the roles imposed by their social environment and their internal sense of self, the persistent oppose between external expectations and the individual’s evolving identity might clash. In such moments, unfortunately, the inner sense of authenticity fades and the identity starts to multiply itself.
Identity in Transit
