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
| Kate Raworth | Adventures in becoming a Muse |
| Kathleen Adkins | …I was bogged down with five children – my choice. My husband would have been happy with two. As my parents weren’t near and we couldn’t afford babysitters, I accepted the consequences and didn’t consider a career… |
| Katrina Navickas | The idea of north |
| Kevin Talbot | The internal life of a doctor who cures no one |
| kristyn westphal | the beating remnants of my spat-upon soul |
| Laura Evans | How at 21 'the truths of my childhood are beginning to crumble' (August 2003) |
| Laura Evans | So I find words I never thought to speak (May 2005) |
| Laurie Maguire | Why an expert on Shakespeare feels that 'by the time you are twenty-something, the way you think is actually quite formed' |
| Leonora Fitzgibbons | How conversations with death help you to rediscover life |
| Lina | Gender and Identity in Conflict: Notes on growing up, settling down, planting roots, and calling it "home". |