The Muse Portrait Database
We invite you to read a sample of portraits from our various projects. If you have any comments about the portraits or would like to know how to write your own self-portrait, please contact us by email. Search our portraits to discover what other people around the world think and feel about: empathy, perfection, war, loneliness, Africa, hair, Einstein, work, poetry, family, sleep, memory, curiosity, dancing...
New Arrivals from the United Arab Emirates
- A Guide to the Self Portrait: Hesam
- A Self Portrait: AI
- Why My Life Is Like Spagetti: S.M.
- A Self Portrait: S.S.
- Never break your parents' car's gear box. No matter how right you are: Quelqu'un
- Gender and Identity in Conflict: Notes on growing up, settling down, planting roots, and calling it "home": Lina
| Bi Scott | Under the winter snow the spring grass grows (1) |
| Bi Scott | Exiled from my future, I have a subdued sense of self (2) |
| Brian Edwards | How a retired human resources manager copes with being a widower |
| Buntu Siwisa | My first name, Buntu, means Humanity |
| Caroline Pitcher | |
| Catrin Jones | …I’ve had the illness since I was twelve or thirteen. Systemic Lupus Erythematosis (SLE or Lupus) is an autoimmune disease that can affect any organ of the body. Rather than concentrating on its proper job the body’s immune system exerts a lot of its energy on destroying its body tissue of choice; the ultimate self-loathing… |
| Charlotte Suthrell | A city becomes a world when one loves one of the inhabitants |
| Chris Mason | Wham bam, I am superman! |
| Christopher Whalen | What you can discover if you do not drink or dance |
| David William Jones | How a brain tumour can change your life, and how it can have no effect at all |