Six black and white self-portraits in several layers printed on glossy photo paper and colored with ecoline markers with water. Each portrait is 13 x 13 cm.

I made these images while listening to my favorite album of the Cure, The Head on the Door. Six different ways moved me. Robert Smith once said that it is about multiple personalities. He later said that the lyrics originated from talks in the studio about how many ways there are to skin a cat; And someone said, “There are definitely six different ways.”

I stick to feeling multiple emotions at the same time. Six different ways inside my heart.

Six Different Ways

This is stranger than I thought
Six different ways inside my heart
And everyone I’ll keep tonight
Six different ways go deep inside

I’ll tell them anything at all
I know I’ll give them more and more

I’ll tell them anything at all
I know I’ll give the world and more
They think I’m on my hands and head
This time they’re much too slow

Six sides to every lie I say
It’s that American voice again
It was never quite like this before
Not one of you is the same

This is stranger than I ever thought
Six different ways inside my heart
And everyone I’ll keep tonight
Six different ways go deep inside

I’ll tell them anything at all
I know I’ll give the world and more
They think I’m on my hands and head
This time they’re much too slow

Six sides to every lie I say
It’s that American voice again
It was never quite like this before
Not one of you is the same

-the Cure