When a friend asked me to draw Venom for her son, I twisted that version for myself.
A self-portrait in full metamorphosis, inspired by depression.
This second skin wrapping you like a cocoon,
woven into the fibers of false appearances, forced smiles, and well-dressed façades.
Thus, this suit whispers and whistles.
My anxieties sang.
My buried memories screamed.
We all have that little inner voice that makes us doubt.
What if it wasn’t a curse?
What if this trauma became a strenght ?
A mirror of our shadow parts… but also of our strength.
Learning to tame it.
Turning it into a drawing to better master it.
That’s the whole point of my expressive drawing workshops:
to explore emotions, dark or bright,
to create without judgment, to express what we sometimes dare not say.
What if your inner venom became your ally?
🖤 Artwork also dedicated to the Luxembourgish band ExInferis and their song Sweet Venom.
NB: The shift from ‘depression’ to ‘trauma’ evokes Jungian archetypes — Anima (the inner feminine) and Animus (the inner masculine) — playing on the original French grammatical gender nuances