Iselfs.
‘I was in my mid-twenties when I first realised that I didn’t truly know my ‘self’. There is a vast world inside me that I can’t see at all. As I later discovered, psychologists refer to this as the unconscious—a whole part of us that remains hidden from our conscious mind. In my quest to understand who I am, I began painting my perceptions on canvases, creating abstract images. In the centre of each, I incorporated a three-dimensional letter 'I' to emphasise that these works represent states of my identity.
Time has passed, but I continue to create these Iselfs pictures, gradually uncovering the bigger picture of myself as it evolves. It is like collecting pieces of a puzzle that, when assembled, form a mental self-portrait that unfolds over time.‘—Ilya Yod.
