What is identity, who am “I”, and what is the “self”? How is identity formed, maintained, and lost? How does successful identity achievement affect one’s own development of morality? Psychoanalysis approaches identity through different lenses such as through attachment theory and ego psychology. Identity is generally defined as structure that accounts for narcissism and is part of the ego; as the ability to remain the same despite changes; as a feeling of continuity; or as the sum of representations of the self.
The art depicted in this series is the artist’s own narrative exploring identity disintegration and formation through incorporating what is known in psychoanalysis as the “id” drives into the ego through a process of exploration of dreams, mourning the loss and disruption of attachments in relationships that form us, exploration of nonverbal memories, and willingness to enter into the realms of the irrational and spiritual though exploration of collective memory through the artist’s own aesthetic disposition.
