It’s all in your head

Ivo Schrama

Woven ‘brain CT scan’ fabric boot with a 3D-printed carrying bent figure as the heel, Ivo Schrama, 2025.

Ivo: ‘They sometimes say: Itโ€™s all in your head. As if that makes it less real. As if everything you canโ€™t see shouldnโ€™t exist either. But believe me… inside my head thereโ€™s a storm. A grey, sealed-off fog that you canโ€™t just walk through.

Iโ€™ve sometimes wished you could see it. Not because I want pity, but because I sometimes doubt it myself. Whether itโ€™s real, or if Iโ€™m just overreacting. What if you put me under a CT scan? What if you could zoom in on my head? My real head. Not just the skull and the lobes, but the thoughts. The darkness. The knots I canโ€™t untangle.

Maybe then youโ€™d see that itโ€™s not just a phase. Or a lack of willpower. And that would be enough. Because whatโ€™s in my head is not โ€œjust something.โ€ Itโ€™s everything.”

ยฉ Charlotte Visser for HMC Amsterdam.


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