“Take a walk with me through my mind

But I’m an unreliable narrator

Can you trust me?”

(“Intros & Narrators”, Bastille)

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People think they know me. Friends and family have formed opinions about my character and my personality. But what they know is the outer me, only what I choose to reveal, and how reliable is that? What about the parts I keep hidden, the inner me?

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Inner me has turmoil and constraints, endless battles I fight with myself, conversations I play on repeat, anxieties and fears that refuse to subside. Yet, this inner me also has strength, empathy and love. There is a spiritual light that cannot be extinguished, an overriding belief in the good in others and there is hope for the future, always hope!

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This yin and yang of my personality is my own unique dichotomy. You cannot separate them. Just as you cannot have light without darkness, joy without pain or the calm without the storm.

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In this ongoing series, I use diptychs to illustrate my hidden personalty traits, portraying apparent contradictions and embracing the role each plays in making up the whole me. I also blend the "real" me with my photographic "alter ego" as a nod to the additional layers of complexity that I sometimes feel the need to construct in my interactions with others.

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