UNDER THE
SKIN

Under the Skin is a project created as series of mixed-media collages using printed self-portrait photography, acrylic paper and acrylic spray paint. The works explore the unseen layers of self — the parts we rarely show, often hide, and sometimes don’t fully understand ourselves. It is an exploration of the shadow: the silent, intimate, and complex aspects of identity that live beneath the surface of what we present to the world.

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We move through life shaped by roles, expressions, language, and form — the visible “lines” of who we are. But beneath those lines lies the unspoken: fractured thoughts, contradictions, fears, and forgotten memories. These are the parts that don’t fit neatly into words, that resist clarity — yet are deeply true.

 

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“Under the Skin” is about what exists in the in-between — the space between image and feeling, between performance and essence. The shadow is not darkness as absence, but a presence we often neglect: our vulnerability, our suppressed emotions, our internal multiplicity.

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Through layered imagery, this series invites the viewer into that subtle territory — where form blurs, where clarity dissolves, and where meaning begins. It is a visual meditation on the beauty of what we cannot fully see or name — and an invitation to sit with what lives quietly, just beneath.