Self Portrait is a sculptural work comprising two 3D resin-printed scans of my face positioned side by side. In one, my eyes are closed, and my mouth is covered with a strip of textile. In the other, my face is captured mid-scream, with textile fibres filling the open mouth. A knotted piece of textile physically connects the two forms.
The work explores my own difficulties with expression and experiences of voicelessness, engaging the body as both archive and site of psychological fragmentation. It introduces a tension between containment and release. The textile acts simultaneously as a binding material and an obstruction, interrupting speech while connecting the two states. In doing so, it reflects multiplicity and the fragmented experience of being heard—or not—within the body.
The smooth printed surfaces evoke the body's outward form, while the textile introduces vulnerability, inherited trauma, memory and the underlying tensions the body carries. Soft yet restrictive, it becomes both connective tissue and constraint, suggesting that what silences us can also bind us to our histories.
Through its materials and form, Self Portrait considers how voicelessness is embodied and how psychological states become physically inscribed. The connection between the two faces is both literal and metaphorical: a body that is resilient yet vulnerable.
