Cole Cramer
Cole Cramer is an artist from the American Midwest who draws from his experience with dissociative identity disorder. He paints from the perspectives of his alters, or personalities, to capture parts of his experience. As far as he knows, there are seven alters. Depending on which personality is directing the artwork, the focus will shift between realistic portraiture, expressionistic “mood- centred” paintings, and playful drawings of anthropomorphic characters, among others. This also applies to his use of colour in his pieces.
He paints from what each part of him remembers, feels, and wants to bring into the world. Each of his alters (the individual faces of his personality) were formed by necessity as he grew up, and serve specialised purposes to help him function and find satisfaction in life.