Meet Amstel, a man spiraling toward psychological collapse — though he does not fully understand what is happening to him.

In Volume I, On Psychosis, travel, drug experiences and fractured perception pull him deeper into an unstable reality. In Volume II, On Tragedy, opens the story further, moving into Amstel’s literal and figurative confinement while exploring love, higher consciousness and the worlds his mind creates.

Drawing on the author’s own life experiences and academic study, Louis Gale’s experimental, deeply personal A Written Self-Portrait series turns the workings of one fractured mind into a story that explores the uneasy line between reality, imagination and consciousness.

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