Distorted Within, part of the series 'Between Selves', is a monochrome work that refuses the conventions of portraiture in favour of something more psychologically honest. Overlapping faces build a single, unstable presence, not multiple figures, but multiple internal states occupying the same space at once: grief, memory, fear, numbness, and longing layered until they lose their individual edges. The composition moves with a deliberate blur, suggesting a consciousness in flux rather than in crisis, shifting between emotional realities without resolution. Definition is withheld intentionally; the faces dissolve into a deep black ground that functions not as backdrop but as psychological space, silent and consuming in equal measure. The absence of clarity is the point. Rendered entirely in tonal monochrome, the work captures the kind of fragmentation that happens quietly and internally, long before it takes any visible form. As a piece of contemporary figurative and psychological art, Distorted Within holds its tension without dramatising it, which is precisely what gives it weight.