Whose Thoughts Are Whose?

The concept of reflecting on someone’s life through a self-portrait, would be like having multiple personalities, while struggling to find their real self. The idea of someone struggling to find their identity causes a mix of emotions with one’s psyche. From one perspective, it reflects the subject’s real life and from a different perspective, it reflects the subject’s fantasy. Masking one’s thoughts while having someone else’s thought invades yours causes confusion. Forgetting about your past life, while fearing no one will trust you makes you uneasy. Thinking one event is real even though it’s fake, causing the mind to interpret everything as real.

Struggling to find one’s identity is something no one wants happening to them. However, it explores whether or not the subject can accept having multiple personalities, or exercise it from their mind entirely. Having the subject’s memories be excised from their mind, while bring in new memories to replace their real self is like splitting your personality. Can a subject with a split-personality be viewed as a person or even be accepted, knowing that their thoughts are someone else's? Does a particular event cause the subject to feel delusional? From some of the images, like the multiple selves of the subject appearing in different locations or them experiencing a glitch and super powers, it leads the subject to questioning their identity. Based on what the subject is going through from these events, it causes the subject’s mind to think there is someone else taking control of their body.

Based on all of the works that is shown, each image explores the thought of having a split identity. From seeing yourself multiple times, to looking at a mirror of yourself multiplying, to particles of yourself fading to nothing, each work delves into different scenarios of what the subject will experience if there is someone else taking over their mind. If the subject sees something that is fake but their mind makes it real, then their mind will view the event as real. Is someone else’s thoughts invading yours or is everything just a fantasy?