Dissociative Artists Collaborative Gallery
Art pieces were submitted by members of Multiplied By One Org, bringing together lived experience and connected journeys.
Rose of the Byrd House System contemplates time loss, through late diagnosis and through gaps in memory, as the sands of time fall through her fingers.
~ The Byrd House
wilted rosé petals
I no longer feel ashamed that I’m a system. There are many of us here, as many as these wilted rosé petals. They are tired and weary, but all together, they are still a beautiful flower.
~ Jackie J
Introspective in Blue
This emotional, introspective piece is blue, not necessarily due to being depressed or dejected, but being comforted, or comforting myself. It does have a sense of sadness, I suppose, but when I'm always in my head, along with my other alters, there's never just one emotion at one time, but many, which I hope I conveyed in this piece.
~ Jenna Erwin
Delta Carr-Romero
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Circle of Flashbacks
To me, Ouroboros reminds me of the flashbacks that keep looping history even when it's not wanted.
~ Jay Smith
Feelings on a Shelf
This is a piece we made to exemplify how we often bottle up our difficult feelings and place them on a shelf to be dealt with at a later date.
~ High Priestess Collective
System Bracelet
While trying a new chainmail pattern, we had the idea to create a system bracelet. The concept was that each color represents one alter, with two sets of rings of one color, one set with a ring of that color and a ring of the next color, and then two sets of rings of the next color. The whole system (that was known at the time, at least) was represented, but that there was also blending between each identity, creating one whole. However, unless you knew that, it was just a pretty bracelet..
~ Sirius Collective
A page from our digital sketch journal. Two of us, V and A, visualize the ways they feel themselves arranged or blended together.
~ Anima System, Vincent Frano
This is a rendering of the stains imprinted by The Monsters.
~ EeFM
I was practicing drawing faces using a charcoal style, and started to heavily dissociate. I cant recall most of the details of creating the art. My guess is that alters stuck in hibernation were overwhelmed by the fact that years were flying by. There seems to be a dialogue between two alters. Why cant I wake up?" then they ask "When can I wake up?" and it gets a response "You won't." I don't know who the alters talking to each other were. There was a deep sense of being lost and helpless from one, and a nostalgic oldness from the other. We started rapid switching, and other alters decided to add little pieces of themselves to the art..
~ Sinister Screams
Counting Down...
I refer to it as the darkness, though some with DID refer to it as the abyss. When dissociation completely, I lose all sense of time and actual reality. I am in a place I can't see or hear and I feel completely adrift. I'm there but I'm not there. I wanted to put forth a piece of me counting down the time even though there is no sense of time, which is why I created something so basic, and yet so emotional in this piece. I hope to convey the idea of being lost and adrift and yet trying to rationalize the time at the same time. This is a more serious piece but the reality of DID can be scary at times and I felt the need to present this side.
~ Jenna Erwin
Just Be
This was drawn to encourage ourselves to just be ourselves, however "weird" that may seem to others.
~ Sirius Collective
A neon rendition of The Hallway: a prison of flashbacks and nightmares for bramble & other nameless littles.
~ EeFM
We R Safe
Lenora made to help remind us all that we are safe in the present, even if we still may deal with lasting effects of trauma. No matter what, we can still see and feel the sun, appreciate the birds and smell pretty flowers. That can’t be taken away.
~ Lenora (Age 5)
Healing Together
Depicts us working together in beauty and harmony, freely playing and enjoying the healing beauty of nature.
~RainbowSystem