Closet Diaries is a self-portrait project exploring identity, transformation, and the fluidity of self through clothing. I entered my friends’ closets and used their garments to construct a series of characters — each look becoming a way to step outside my usual boundaries and inhabit new versions of myself.
The project began from a feeling of being fixed in a particular role, shaped by gendered and cultural expectations, personal insecurities, and financial limitations. By using what was already around me rather than buying or acquiring, I found freedom in improvisation — in discovering identity through exchange and play.
Inspired by artists such as Cindy Sherman and Juan Pablo Echeverri, the series explores the idea of clothing as both disguise and revelation. Through colour, performance, and transformation, Closet Diaries captures a mutable self — one that resists definition and thrives in multiplicity.