Self Assemblage

(An anti-portrait in twelve objects and one broken mirror)
I asked the mirror to show me myself — it hesitated, reversed, and cracked.
I asked the Internet instead. Friends and strangers, known and unknown, tossed me words like spells: surprising, sharp, radiant, remote.
This began as an experiment: I invited people on my social media to describe me in one or two words. Their responses — intimate, absurd, affectionate, cryptic — became the raw material for this assemblage. It felt like looking into a mirror that couldn’t quite reflect me, so I broke it, and used the fragments to build something truer.
In Self Assemblage, I perform the fiction of self through the ancient ritual of objects. I did not pose; I composed. I became a still life:
An egg balanced on meaning.
A feather remembering something it never touched.
A knife, a magnifying glass, a soap bubble.
Pigment masquerading as personality.
Light as a hypothesis.
A sponge trying to clean it all up.
Each photo is a mirror shard — warped, sincere, absurd. A portrait assembled from descriptions, misrecognitions, and the intimate theatre of suggestion. Because to photograph the self is to chase it.
To become the ghost inside the transparent glass.

Text message: "Bright, just like your hair."

Text message: "Deeply sensitive and vulnerable, yet at the same time capable of being sharp and piercing, like a razor's edge."

Text message: "Brave and light."

Text message: "Deeply sensitive and vulnerable, yet at the same time capable of being sharp and piercing, like a razor's edge."

Text message: "Luminous, transparent."

Text message: "The art of light."

Text message: "Mary Poppins. Mmm, I guess it’s mostly an association with the image of a proper, well-mannered girl - someone who speaks several languages, knows how to behave in public, and overall just has that preppy vibe. Although by the last day of us getting to know each other, I saw that you’re actually really fun - and maybe not quite so proper after all))."

Text message: "My crazy friend" )) But “crazy” here is meant in the most positive way possible!"

Text message: "Dynamic."

Text message: "Touch the soul)"

Text message: "Authenticity."

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