Ideal Ego

The title Ideal Ego refers to the quest of finding my identity within all the places, time, culture, and feelings. Simply stated, Ideal Ego is an ideal image which everyone imagines of his or her perfect self (Kanwal 1988, p. 5). This group of works developed around the idea of taking a closer look at the world around me and at the same time observing myself. This project includes drawing into re-cycled second-hand books. These texts, filled as they are with their previous owners’ dreams and ideas, are overlaid with my dreams, nightmares and life experiences. I aim to show their real faces and how they describe their identity, reflecting on them with the mirror of my own artworks.