Self Portrait I
9cm x 15cm (3.5 x 5.9 inches). Mixed media and hand-raised Bombyx mori silk moth taxidermy. Completed in 2025.
Self Portrait I marks my first sculpture and continues the personal exploration begun in my Woman in the Bath series. While those paintings captured the “unmasking” phase of my life, this work represents the next step - the “unmasked” phase.
As someone on the autism spectrum, I often feel like an outsider - too much, too sensitive, too curious. This piece reflects that oddness not as something to hide, but as something to honour. The silk moth, hand-raised and preserved, symbolises fragility and transformation, echoing my own journey of acceptance.
This sculpture is both a declaration and an act of self-love: a way of expressing how I see and experience the world - intensely, uniquely, and beautifully.