
Fusion by grace2244
An artistic expression of my 12/2 integration and fusion.
How magazine images, life photos, and collages helped alters communicate and allowed me to meet insiders. Watching an alter heal through images was one of the blessings of my journey.



These 8-1/2 x 11 collages were done from late September 97 until March 98 when I switched to larger artist paper. So these were the earliest clues. The baby on the lower left is me. I think I only now understand this. Interesting someone put it together 11 years ago when I would have to wait this long for an answer. Good idea to keep all notes and drawings!
Please forgive the blacked out faces on the "real" photos. This is ages 1 to 3 (by candles on the cakes). The last photo might be age 4. Top right is little Janie. Next on left is Audrey. Lucy is on the right above my last photo. Someone showing when each came into existence. I know the Audrey/Lucy split was one month after my 3rd birthday--Christmas. (Am just noticing how the alter pictures all have a similar gold/burnt orange color.)




Raven must have been the main me out in my organized world of abuse that continued into my 40s. I didn't understand until much later that Raven believed she was "a male without a penis". I have notebooks full of her images and memories to include watching her slow healing process.
I had numerous images of "Coco Chanel" who always appeared as wounded emotionally. Since my integration, I've torn out a few magazine pictures. Took me awhile to understand. Coco was a wounded part of Raven. Her job was to hide Raven's femininity. Notice her discomfort with having breasts and now hiding her genital area. Healing but not completely comfortable in "her" body.
I chose this to be representative of my many images/collages of the building. Aside from the double chimneys, notice the windows with the square glass blocks. You can see the circles around the chimneys better in the lower image. Apparently they are used like a ladder. The top image also reflects one of the many images I have of very large piping.
Aside from images of the Annex at Walter Reed printed out for my memory folder, I had the firetruck image from Walter Reed's fire company #55 placed next to the two chimney building in my collages.
Images taken from the side of what was identified as Walter Reed's incinerator building. The left photo shows the detail of the window with the glass blocks.
I'm not sure if this is the full front or full back of the building. Notice the top of the roof with the windows. The cartoon images also show windows on top of the roof line.





Easel as a little girl. The ad below her image is about drugs. (Not all alters have "regular" names.) Easel went with other images I found with art easels.

This image reveals her "job". Not all Easel images were scanned. This connects directly with components in other Easel images.
Easel saved. Healing but still looking shaken or frightened.
Can you say "spinning" to confuse with regard to male/female identification?
My internal message for this picture is "man boobs".
Can you believe I found these kinds of pictures?
I see a man dressed as a woman. Interestingly, it is Jerry Hall.
"Black & White" went with extreme messages. If you click on this photo to enlarge it,
I don't know about the meaning of hats except to connect pictures for me. Notice the two babies have the same hat as healed Audrey. The internal message is that was the body's age at the time of the split. Preverbal :-(

