I Contain Multitudes, oil on linen canvas, 50x40cm, 2024-2025. ©Elina Siddal

Named after a verse from Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself,’ this painting and its playful cabinet of curiosities theme aim to explore the richness of a one’s inner world. In an age where everything is seemingly done to separate, the key to connection is already in our possession, just beyond the veil of appearances.

Do I contradict myself?

Very well then I contradict myself,

(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”

Walt Whitman, ‘Song of Myself (51)’,

Leaves of Grass, 1891-2.

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