This series turns self‑portraiture into a field of metamorphosis: identities slip between species, symbols, and inner architectures. Each figure is a threshold rather than a likeness — a precise moment where the self fractures, mutates, and reveals what usually stays hidden.
oil on canvas 60x60cm • 2014
"This self‑portrait cracks open the mind as a constructed space — a vault of stitched memories, suspended threats, and fragile certainties. What remains of the face is only the threshold; the real portrait happens inside, where identity is an inventory of tensions."
oil on canvas 80x60 • 2026
"The portrait convention is intact — close, serious, frontal. Only the face is missing, replaced by the head of a city pigeon: overlooked, underestimated, everywhere and nowhere. The turquoise mark at the throat is the only colour that breaks the grey. It functions like a signature, or a wound, or a name tag. This is not self-deprecation. It is something more accurate: a portrait of someone who has learned to move through the world unnoticed, and is not entirely sure how to feel about that."
oil on canvas 130x100cm • 2024
"Self Portrait as an Octopus presents identity as a shifting organism—one that stretches, coils, and adapts under pressure both intimate and unseen. The embrace of the tentacles oscillates between protection and constraint, revealing a self that is never singular but always in negotiation. The stark field of white, punctuated by geometric signs of order, heightens the tension between the organic and the constructed. What emerges is not a portrait of who we are, but of the forces that shape who we become."
