Inner Child

2022
Ink, paint, artificial skin, pigment and human hair on canvas
30.5 x 23 cm

The inner child, accumulated since the traumatic childhood, is trapped in my skin; growing like roots, absorbed into my flesh like veins, causing pain like thorns and restraining me like a barbed wire.

The painting's surface texture features the imprint of the artist's actual skin, with their own hair implanted.