My work often illustrates the inner reflections of my own identity, and it predominantly interrogates my concerns regarding displacement, dysphoria, abandonment and otherness. I’ve always been drawn to self-portraiture, the adoption of personas, and the concealment of one’s identity through masks, veils or other forms of disguises, as I often felt I had to mask certain aspects of my being, or live a double life, to be accepted by my peers and family. The masks ability to shield the wearers identity, offers the wearer the power to dictate and modify their own sense of self, however they see fit.

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