Description

Title: Identity Suicide

Date: November 2025

Dimension: 70 x 120cm

Mixed Media (wood, acrylic paint, epoxy resin, metal, modeling compound)

“Identity Suicide” is a study of the selves we leave behind.
We often speak of ‘growth’ as if it were a gentle evolution, but this work rejects that illusion. Identity does not transition-it fractures. It dies. It is replaced.

The four intact masks stand as the corpses of former selves: personalities once inhabited, now empty, silent, preserved only as memory and surface. The melting mask, by contrast, is the active death-the moment in which a current identity collapses under the weight of new experience. It is the precise instant where a person realizes:

“I am no longer who I was.
The one I remember is already gone.”

The red backdrop suggests psychological violence, the erosion at the bottom echoes the structural decay of self-concepts, and the metal mesh behind the work becomes a metaphor for the external world-the systems and encounters that force each death into existence.

The piece challenges the viewer to confront an uncomfortable truth:
We believe we are continuous beings, yet every significant event kills a version of us.
Identity is not stable; it is a succession of suicides-
a lifelong sequence of endings that make room for new selves we often barely recognize.

This work stands as a reminder that we are strangers to our former selves,
and that becoming someone new always requires the destruction of who we were.

This work of art is unique. Price on request. Please contact me at: studio@robinstevenmone.art