Destroying the Princess

 “There is a princess in all our heads: she must be destroyed.” 

  Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

"Destroying the Princess" is a deeply personal self-portrait series that critically examines female identity through a feminist perspective. It deconstructs the idealized "princess" archetype — a symbol entwined with cultural myths of purity, power, and passivity — to reveal the tensions between societal expectations and individual subjectivity.

The project navigates themes such as the negotiation of selfhood within normative frameworks, the impact of cultural rituals on embodied experience, and the fragmentation of identity in contemporary femininity. Using experimental collage animation, it visualizes the interplay between vulnerability and resistance, surface and depth, myth and reality.

Situated at the intersection of personal narrative and collective discourse, this ongoing work reflects on how identity is constructed, performed, and transformed amid forces of conformity and self-definition. It invites viewers to reconsider inherited narratives and embrace multiplicity in the understanding of womanhood.