Weathered Soul
We, Within Me
by Marion van den Ende
I am not one. Out of my own face come the others who are also me, each with its own gaze. My hands at my temples try to hold us together.
- TechniqueHahnemühle · Dibond
- Size100 × 75 cm
- EditionEdition of 24
- Price€995
More than one self
In a dissociative identity — once called multiple personality — one person lives with several selves, who do not always know of one another's existence. It is almost always born of early, unbearable pain: a mind that split itself to survive what one child could not carry alone. It is not a weakness, but an art of surviving.
Here that is not a horror but something human and moving: three faces in one, each true, each part of the same story. The hands at the temples are not despair but care — the effort to hear every voice without falling to pieces.
Understanding begins with looking without judgement. Those who live this way are not broken but manifold — and deserve to be seen in all their parts.
