The gestures arising from the inner conflicts are self-inflicted pain and self- destructive behavior. Other forms are self-doubt, self-censorship, self-deprecation, self-recrimination etc. Even self-mutilation and suicidal tendencies, though extreme, are variances. Also self-restraint and self-control, both negative and positive attributes are part of that equation.

The self-destructive behavior seems to be more acute in contemporary life with its alienation and self-obsessive consumerism and conformism. Yet destructive and creative forces must coexist like the Yin and Yang symbol, they are equal partners. The dark and the light are intertwined in a circle and each has a part of the other imbedded in them. Between the dark and the light, my primary interest is the destructive impulses, the self-directed ones. I expose, explore and examine the complexity of this psychological condition as well as the physical manifestation resulting from it.