A woman with face paint and a headscarf, wearing a green dress and a necklace, sitting at a table with tarot cards, some floating in the air and some on the table.
A mime artist with white face paint, wearing a black bowler hat, striped shirt, and white gloves, resting her chin on her hand, with pink and blue dominoes arranged in a smile on a table.
Person dressed as a mime sitting on a yellow chair, holding a vintage green rotary phone, with another rotary phone on the floor beside them, against a plain background.
A mime artist with white face paint, black teardrop makeup, pink lipstick, and daisy flower hair accessories, sitting at a table with a meat cleaver in hand and a guillotine model, dressed in a floral dress and white gloves, against a green backgroun
A woman with face makeup resembling a mime or clown, wearing a black hat with a pink flower, black dress with textured fabric, and a strap over her shoulder, against a plain blue background.
A mime artist with white face paint, black tears, and pink lips holding out her hand, which supports a small birdcage with a woman dressed as a mime inside, wearing a striped shirt and blue gloves, with a flower on her head.
A person with clown makeup, wearing a black hat and floral shirt, sitting on a yellow chair in front of a black background. There are crumpled tissues, a wine glass, a pen, and blank paper on the floor.
A mime artist with face paint, wearing a black hat and gloves, and a flower in her hair, looks at a shadow puppet of a bird on the wall.
A woman dressed as a mime or clown, holding a microphone, with white face paint, black hat, and red roses in her hair, standing in front of a dark curtain with red spheres hanging in the background.
Woman in Halloween costume with skeletal makeup, black hooded cloak, flower crown, holding a lit red candle, against a dark background.

Portraits of Fear & Becoming

These series of self-portraits were created as an exercise to understand myself a little better, to analyse the triggers and thoughts that disturb me in daily life, and to learn why I sometimes don’t dare to do certain things or feel paralysed by my fears. Rejection or failure, death, the future, ageing, physical pain, and heartbreak are the main struggles I try to fight against and accept, or ignore, the best I can.

That’s how this project was born: as an exercise in introspection, learning, acceptance, and growth. I wanted to confront those worries and laugh at them. So I picked up my camera and flashes, tortured myself with the most uncomfortable makeup, and created a series of theatrical self-portraits inspired by artists like Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman. I dressed as a mime to shift the focus away from “me,” becoming an alter ego—a playful character I could observe from a new perspective. I chose colourful backgrounds and crafted humorous, whimsical scenes.

The intention behind these photographs is to remind myself to meet life as it is, and to stop letting fear hold me back from moving in the direction I want to go. To embrace pain as I embrace joy. To feel, to be, and to exist without restraint.