„Pinocchio – My Own Personal Jesus” (Reach out and touch „faith”!)

“’…I become an individual negatively, because all my experiences in my childhood were negative. The only way I know how to become an individual is to push people away.’ That’s how there’s a very strong correlation between narcissism and anxious-avoidant or anxious-dismissive attachment styles. That’s a fact. Their sense of self-identity critically depends on rejecting people. They feel that they exist when they’re not someone else. It’s an absence aspiring to become a presence, by rendering you to become an absence. ‘If I’m empty inside, if I were to succeed to hand over this emptiness to you then I will be fulfilled.’ It’s like Pinocchio. The narcissist cannot identify love as a basic skill – to grasp love, to digest love. But in emptiness, he’s an expert.” - Sam Vaknin

10”x15” glossy acrylic print on metallic photo paper.
In the video, print is on the left and original encaustic on the right.