Self-Mutliation and the Self..

The girl is me, the arms are me. It reads: These Are The Good Old Days, Best Hope Or Broken Promises?, How To Avoid Breakdowns Nervous or Otherwise, Finding Hope In The Darkness, Real Relief For Real Living, It Is Not The Act Of A Few Bad Apples, A Life Destroyed by Terrible Deeds, Mea Culpa Mea Culpa Mea Maxim Culpa, and The Only Antidote to Metal Suffering Is Physical Pain-Karl Marx...

I started out with drawings in pencil on the pages of the book itself (I even made the book myself) that related to S-I, then I cut and glued the pictures and words with Matte Medium, the razor blade and exacto knife blade , safety pin and tack I glued down with Syllicone. (sp?) Then I went over the whole thing with Gloss Medium mixed with Red Acrillic. =]