Attempting an Escape - a photo on Flickriver

            Your identity can become a trap, a net woven around you to constrict where you will go and who you will become. When your identity is defined for you, you conform to what your world and society expect of you.
When you don’t conform, society can spring an equally tight fitting identity upon you: misfit, outcast, wrong.

How brave would you need to be to escape, to shed the cocoon of conformity or misunderstanding? 

During the process of my questioning and then trying to leave the cult I was raised in, not only was I trying to escape the identity of “blessed child,” but also understand the trappings of the new identity that were being placed on me: sinner, fallen, whore.

Neither of those projections upon me felt true, but until that point, I had also not developed my internal compass to understand myself and identity.

With this image, I wanted to explore the tension between feeling trapped and abandoned by the various identities that had been in conflict within me growing up, while trying to express the difficulty of escaping the faith that had formed my earliest understandings of myself.

Have you ever found yourself in conflict with the identity you were expected to conform to? What challenges and experiences did you move through as you faced that conflict?

Taken on: November 7, 2018

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Sets appears in: • Burdens of a White Dress

Groups appears in: • d r e a m s c a p e s • myself ; self portraits more » • Dark ART • ALTERED UNIVERSE • Orpheus Is A Snapshot • Alternate Realities: Surreal & Mystical Images • creative minds photography. • held captive by the imagination • darkclub • Darkness Within • RED dingue du rouge « less

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