The Making of a Self
This is a six-part painting series that examines identity as a layered, continuously shifting construct. Rather than following a linear narrative, the works trace an inner progression shaped by memory, perception, and transformation.
The series moves from pre-verbal states through phases of tension, withdrawal and selfprotection, toward processes of change and inward vision. Each painting functions as part of a larger system in which meaning emerges through repetition, variation, and accumulation.
Fragmented and doubled figures recur throughout the series, suggesting multiplicity, identification, and the coexistence of vulnerability and defense. Distortions, markings, and layered gestures act as carriers of psychological residue without referring to specific events.
The Making of a Self (2025)
Why is exhaustion almost seen as proof of a fulfilled life?
We live in a time that cultivate fatigue. Fed by constant images of crisis in the media, social anxieties, and the persistent exhaustion caused by work. A fatigue that shapes our present, yet is rarely named openly.
Faster, better, higher has become the unspoken motto of our era. In the process, we forget that human beings are not machines. And yet, paradoxically, they are treated as such:
replaceable, interchangeable, discarded once they no longer function as they did on the first day.
We move within a throw-away society in which numbers carry meaning and efficiency is rewarded. While emotions and inner limits barely count.
Fatigue, 2025
Acrylic on Canvas, 100cm x 70cm
Which parts of us were formed before we understood the world?
This work speaks of emotions that accompany us long before we find words for them. It tells of experiences from childhood that imprint themselves and remain as life moves on.
As adults, we do not only respond to our environment, but also to the inner child we all carry within us. It continues to see, feel, and think for us. As a raw core within the self.
Before Words, 2025
Mixed Media on Canvas, 100cm x 70cm
Do the structures we create still serve us, or do we now serve them?
Around us emerge structures created by individuals and by humanity as a whole. Formed from rules, norms, and habits, they promise stability and protection. Walls meant to safeguard, yet also to enclose.
These structures accompany us every day. They organize, limit, and shape our thinking and actions. Within them, we preserve what is familiar, but also what is uncomfortable, what is unsettling, what we would rather not face. What provides safety can, at the same time, become constricting.
Thus, what sustains us can also turn into what threatens us. The very structures that promise protection may become the greatest danger to ourselves.
Walls we trust, 2025
Mixed Media on Canvas, 100cm x 70cm
Is identity something we are, or something we are constantly becoming?
Identity unfolds as an inner structure, shaped by memories, influences, and personal narratives, formed to make the world comprehensible. It does not exist as a fixed unity, but as movement:
we break apart and reassemble. Again and again. Day by day, year by year.
Within us live countless versions of ourselves. The outside world, however, usually encounters only one of them. What others see is not a whole, but a fragment in time. An imprint of the moment in which our paths cross. Only we carry the sum of these facets within us, aware of the in-between, the unfinished, the ever-changing nature of our being
Becoming, 2025
Mixed Media on Canvas, 100cm x 70cm
How can closeness endure when our dreams drift apart?
At times, it seems that people must walk their own path in order to live their dreams, not out of distance, but out of loyalty to themselves.
It appears that they can meet one another without loss only once they have found themselves, because only then does closeness cease to be a form of sacrifice and instead become something beautiful, in which both are allowed to remain whole.
And yet, the question arises of what happens when someone dreams alone for too long, and the inner images begin to touch less and less.
Perhaps connection does not mean walking the same road, but being able to stand side by side, each fulfilled in their own becoming, and still connected.
dreams, 2025
Mixed Media on Canvas, 100cm x 70cm
What happens when we truly see our self?
We live with contradictions that rarely surface clearly. Shaped by experiences, expectations, and unspoken wounds, the self does not develop in a straight line. It fragments, overlaps, and resists coherence.
Part of this tension is how we see ourselves. Self-perception often weighs more than how we imagine others see us. There is a constant fear of being judged, of being reduced to our flaws or weaknesses. Yet most of the time, others are not looking as closely as we assume. They are occupied with their own thoughts, their own insecurities, just as we are with ours.
Seen this way, perception becomes something double-sided:
what we believe is visible to others, and what we quietly construct about ourselves often drift apart.
awakening, 2025
Mixed Media on Canvas, 100cm x 70cm
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