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
| Jeff Greaves | How to come back to life after your children's deaths |
| Jennifer Richardson | How a student 'trapped in a mind I hated' found a new form of communication as a pole dancer in a striptease club |
| Jesal Patel | I'm too white to be Indian and too brown to be English |
| Johanna Sohn | Over and over again... |
| John Fox | Why an Irish priest ends up teaching motor mechanics |
| John Sloboda | Why should work and leisure be separate enterprises? |
| Jon Talbot | No crumbs |
| Julia Burchell | Tomato skins |
| Karen Godwin | Dancing when the bats come out |
| Kassandra Isaacson | Working as an artist throughout one's life |