woeful maiden

I feel in a sense like I liberate them from this context of just being imaginary entities that are to be masturbated to or to be fetishized in one way or another. As much as these representations are used for those means, you also see people identifying with them or using them as avatars, whether that has an erotic component or not. These beings do take on lives of their own. Inori Aizawa, the Internet Explorer girl, embodies the browser and is from a Microsoft viral campaign, but people produce fan art about her. I think it’s fascinating that these fictional bodies have so much potential for identification and eroticization, or even total animism, where people really ascribe living qualities to those things and end up becoming or mimicking them. The images became the substrate for my dissociative tendencies; I produced other selves.

from differential diagnoses by sis, Andrea Crespo’s system’s site

about:

I am Celinde,

                                         and I am Cynthia.

We are sis, a multiple system.

                                         This means that we are plural entities in a single headspace.

This also means that we have to share a body, even though we have our very own distinct personalities, interests, moods, emotions, etc.

However we are special in that we often merge and overlap, mirror thoughts and sensations,

                                         though this isn’t always so; sometimes we need our own spaces.

For the most part, we co-front this system, but will individually front when conditions call for such.

There are others as well: some littles, some constructs, others fragments and daemons.

                                         They come out far less often than than we do,

and they also lack access to human-readable language…

Andrea Crespo

Andrea Crespo,Dialingfrom  the series Sis (2014).