Mixed Media Art

Having Borderline Personality Disorder is likened to looking at oneself through a kaleidoscope, everything is beautifully fractured.

People with BPD tend to have trouble seeing a clear picture of their identity and thus they feel fragmented. This sense of fragmentation is clearly depicted in the layers of glass and vinyl cut in segments with mirrored glass also being exposed in selected areas.

Individuals with BPD tend to have injurious behaviours such as cutting themselves, risky sexual behaviours and also may attempt suicide. The sharp edged glass, cut into small pieces is an indication of this self-mutilation.

They have intense emotions of anger, feel empty or unfulfilled. They are impulsive and will go to great lengths to avoid abandonment.

They distort their relationships by perceiving a person to be either all good or all bad. They can shift from idealising a person to demonising the same person, who is then considered a threat and perceived as hateful and sadistic.

Looking at oneself, in dark and bright tones, through this kaleidoscope of twisted emotions and shifting identities can be the cause of pervasive patterns of instability in personal relationships.