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EXPRESSIONS

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Oh well
2020 

Coming to terms with a situation that cannot be changed.

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Deep in dutch
2020

Referencing Dutch doors which can be half opened half closed simultaneously.  Painting a face composed of both straight lines and horizontal lines in complementary colours, implicating a paradoxical state of mind.

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Waiting for the darkness to turn into dawn
2020

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Shadows
2020

In the blue of the eyeshadows, she is looking through the shadows of life.

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My fever burns me deeper than I’ve ever shown
2020

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Vacant
2020

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Synchronicities
2020

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If I only could
2020

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Turning sour
2020

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I see in different lights
2020

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Curls
2020

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All I see is blue
2020

Implicating when a person is in a depressive state, one couldn't see anything out of the blue they're in.

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Lightness, bearable
2020

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A step you can't take back

2020

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Life in an hourglass
2020

An hourglass shaped by human faces, symbolically implying the fleeting existence of human life.

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Lady with moles
2018

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The only one stopping me is me
But I don't know how to outsmart myself

2022

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2024

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2024

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Lunatics
2024

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2024

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Feminine shrewdness
2024

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I live my life like a comedy show just to guess your reaction
2024

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I overlay reality with dangerous fantasies
2024

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When nothing can mean it like it is
2024

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The improficient dreamer
2024

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Dreams of a perverse loner 1
2024

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Dreams of a perverse loner 2
2024

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The flies that wouldn't fly out of an open jar
2025

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Open your eyes from a long sleep to an inverted world.  Where irony rises from the bottom of Truth, to a reality that misfits you.  Be careful of what you actualise; for reality is ground for this nescience to burgeon destruction.

2025

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Terror
2024

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I do not know how to hold all
the beauty and sorrow of my life

2021

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Enlightened
2022

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Soundless

2022

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Broken

2021

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Monocular

2021

With only one eye, she sees the world even clearer.

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Crackhead
2021

Hankering
2024

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The fool
2023

Have-it-all
2023

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Apparition
2023

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In a rut
2023

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Look the devil in the eye
2023

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Feeling is wiser than thinking
2023

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A quagmire of me 1
2023

A quagmire of me 2
2023

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Out leaves the soul like a sunflower
2023

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Daedalian
2023

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The rack of existence

 The squeezing of fingers, peeling dry skin off lips, pressing incessantly with self-terminating embarrassment.  Not understanding conversations, but engrossed in a chaotic mind of words, like 'shit', 'damn', 'should kill myslelf', always with an idiotic smile, that cringes even more.  Stop the freight, to gag and spit, acid of shame churned in the gut pushing the throat.  From two hours of people and life, comes an inevitable mind-numbing bearing of routinistic doings.  Say thank you to everyone so sincerely like they are your final words to humanity.  All the while, the only thing of focus is, someone, out of sight is watching you. 
2025

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A gigantic appetite for life pressed by a need for healing
But not catching myself from a descending swirl of feeling

2021

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The grinning demon
2021

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Detonation
2025

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Monster at home 1
2025

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Monster at home 2
2025

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Leashing a lion
2025

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The ostentatious way of a coward
2025

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Eyelids withering
2025

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 Oblivion and defiance 
2025

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The manifesting magician
2025

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Invisible eye
2025

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Tree of cause and effect
2025

To be with people but aching alone.  To submerge oneself into melodies of synchronising desolate beating hearts, and a sympathetic melancholy that sinks deeper and deeper from the ruffles of life.  To ponder on the question of where love stands on the spectrum of conditionality and unconditionality.  And be unable to decipher the truth of happiness, from calculated steerings of relationships.  To pause on the dichotomy of fearing and adoring, and doubt the concept of inherent worth.   

2025

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Self-made icky fricks
2025

Verna Lam Art Studio
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