The work "Who Am I? A Monologue with Myself" was born from a question to which it is impossible to give a single answer: what remains of our "Self" when the identities, roles, expectations, and illusions through which we define ourselves begin to collapse?

This painting is the final work of my long-term series "In the Company of Sigmund Freud". In earlier works, I explored individual internal states — anxiety, depression, despair, and introversion. Here, I move beyond the description of emotions to a more fundamental existential question: not "what is happening to me?", but "who am I?".

I did not want to paint an answer. I wanted to create a space where this question could remain alive.

The fragmented, multi-layered texture became a crucial part of the creative process. It conveys identity not as something monolithic and predetermined, but as a structure formed through accumulated experience, memory, internal conflict, and transformation. What seems ruined is not necessarily destroyed: cracks can become openings through which a new level of perception emerges.

My background in psychology and Gestalt therapy deeply nourishes this approach, but I do not illustrate psychological theories. I process internal experience into a visual language — using acrylic, texture, light, shadow, and symbolic fragmentation to make the invisible tangible.

For me, this painting becomes a silent monologue: the "Self" looking at itself, asking questions and discovering that identity is not a final destination, but a continuous process of becoming.

The work does not provide an answer to the question "Who Am I?".

It invites the viewer to enter into this question.