Defragmented Ego is AI-assisted digital art by Inna Etuvgi, alias My Psychedelic Garden.
A girl clutches a disco ball — her ego — shaped by culture, media, memory, and countless digital reflections of the self. Defragmented Ego explores the fragile balance between visibility and self-preservation in a world of curated identities, social media, and algorithmic control.
Inspired by Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden, Inna Etuvgi reimagines the mirrored sphere — no longer a flawless surface, but a glimmering disco ball made of fractured reflections - it is no longer a mirror of vanity, but of vulnerability. In a world of constant connection, influence, and distraction, we struggle to hold the pieces together — to remain whole, to stay seen, but not shattered or dissolved.
Within the digital landscape — where we are almost naked, endlessly watched, tracked, and shaped by systems that often seem to know us better than we know ourselves — we long to stay visible without being consumed. Defragmented Ego reflects the emotional cost of hypervisibility and asks: Where does authenticity live? How do we protect our core without vanishing?
This portrait is both personal and universal — a meditation on how we exist now: fragmented, glowing, and still reaching for wholeness.
