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Paradox

$250Original canvas

“That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.”

— Ted Hughes

Canvas with hand-generated gilding and embroidery. Imagery reflective of the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Gold detailing follows the Circle of Fifths — a tonal architecture mirroring the diagnosis.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder · 8 × 8 in

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