The masks we wear are not always lies.
Sometimes they are survival.

This piece explores identity, emotional fragmentation, hidden personas, and the silent transformation happening beneath the surface of the human face.

Layers dissolving.
Fragments speaking.
The self becoming multiple.

“Fragmented Selves” explores the hidden architecture of identity — the masks we wear to survive, adapt, and exist within social and emotional structures.

The layered faces emerge and dissolve simultaneously, reflecting the tension between the authentic self and constructed personas shaped by memory, trauma, expectation, and human connection. The melting forms and fractured expressions symbolize emotional erosion, internal conflict, and the silent transformation taking place beneath the visible surface.

Created through an experimental process combining texture, transparency, and abstraction, the work invites the viewer to confront the multiplicity within themselves — the parts revealed, concealed, broken, and reborn.

This piece exists between vulnerability and protection, presence and disappearance, becoming both a portrait and a psychological landscape.

Artist: Monika Tkaczyk
Medium: Mixed Media on Glass

Kiln-fired hand-painted glass (1.5 mm)
 Size: 18 × 18 cm
 Light-reactive surface
 One-of-a-kind piece 

Year: 2026