A quiet negotiation unfolds between presence and perception, between what is felt and what is seen. itself-in-itself reflects on the layered and unstable nature of identity, where fragmentation is not a failure but a condition of being. 

Circular forms appear throughout: gestures toward repetition, cycles, or incomplete attempts at wholeness. Fragmentation remains visible, echoing philosophical ideas from Deleuze, describing the self as dividual - multiple and constantly shifting. Sartre’s existentialist concept of “being-in-itself” describes consciousness as fixed yet incapable of full self-awareness or resolution. 

Warm, grounded forms sit in states of tension. Curves are interrupted by lines; smoothness gives way to roughness. These contrasts reveal a self that resists resolution - shaped by internal experience yet influenced by external structures. 

The work offers no answers, only a space to consider: What holds together when certainty slips? What does it mean to continue without resolution? In this suspended state, the self lingers - not as a conclusion, but as an ongoing question