The effects of living with a dissociative disorder, causes me to experience this physical world in which we live, to seem as ‘real’ as the one seen upon television or at the cinema, a painting, or a photograph. I chose the photograph as a means of recording the ‘fiction’ in which I live, and the potential to move beyond it. For me, physically manipulating the photographic image perceptually and aesthetically, provides a certain autonomy not bound by the expectations held within this particular medium.