Closet Diaries is an exploration of identity, self-presentation, and transformation through clothing. For this project, I entered my friends’ closets and created a series of self-portraits using only what I found there — inhabiting their garments, styles, and energies. Through this process, I used fashion not as a means of acquisition, but of access: a way to experience multiplicity through what was already around me.
Drawing on artists such as Cindy Sherman and Juan Pablo Echeverri, I was interested in how costume and self-styling can act as tools of liberation — allowing the self to expand, fragment, and reform. What began as an experiment in dressing up became a process of dismantling a fixed sense of identity shaped by cultural, gender, and financial constraints.
The resulting images are playful, colourful, and performative — yet also deeply introspective. By transforming into different characters through borrowed clothing, I found myself uncovering truer versions of who I am: a mutable self, fluid and ever-changing, revealed through acts of play, imitation, and inhabitation.
