the paintings by ria are absolutely haunting. i've rarely felt such a sense of dread and sadness for what the artist must have gone through to create such harrowing paintings.

I love how respectful you are it's easy for channels like this to lean into the shock value creepy vibe but you don't ever let that over shadow the real stories of real people and you never make a dramatized spectacle out of mental illness as someone who's been through a lot of deep dark shit in my life i greatly appreciate appropriately sensitive content

A friend of mine had/has DID. She said that when her personalities were being integrated she was scared. She didn't know if all their memories would flood her mind. Or, who she would be when all the personalities. were integrated into one. When she was a teenager she was institutionalized which only created a new set of problems. It was in the 1970's and the facility was horrible. She returned worse than when she went in. She is doing quite well now and is a dependant of her younger sister. She needs her sister to take care of all her appointments and medications. Sadly, her sister is also a controlling person and the type of person who "knows everything". Including knowing what is better for my friend over what the doctors tell her. It's a difficult situation and sadly it's better than her living on her own or with one of her other siblings. During the integration she discovered when and why the personalities developed. She was being sexual abused by an uncle and a neighbor. The personalities were to protect her from remembering and dealing with the abuse as it was happening. She is a darling lady and my heart breaks for what she has lived through.

Why is no one talking about what happened to her and the child trafficking rings she's been through and seen! This is why she's the way she is!

It’s fascinating how different each work is in finality. I’ve heard of Kim Noble, but I’ve never seen her work up close. Talent can arrive from any age or background and Kim is a great example.

As one of your subscribers with D.I.D and an artist, we deeply appreciate you making this so so so much. Kim Noble helped my system and I to do more art. We did our first art show this last Saturday (December 10,2022). Always looking forward to your videos ❤❤❤❤

too often are the works of us mentally ill reduced to our tragedies and suffering. I appreciate your insight into Kim/Patricia so much because her art and illness are of course linked, but you highlight the positives and impressive things found in her person. And reaching out to her too! Thank you. Love the videos as always

I read Kim Noble's autobiography- its a really interesting book which can make you empathize with the struggles of Patricia to live with and accept her DID. I'd definitely recommend it.

I cried looking at Anon's work. It's simple yet dense. The painting of the black woman and several other women around her on a white background gave me chills throughout my whole body. That one hurt

hello, concept artist here. I think its common for artists to have different technics for different parts of the painting like textures,fabrics, hair, skin, leather etc etc, but once we see everything as a closed images and finished paintings its hard to tell which one is it, you just have an idea of the overall style and personality of said artist. What fascinates me with Kim's case is how these small aspects of artistic expression are part of her different personalities main styles and they all make complete paintings with different technics, her brush work is fantastic bcs she manages to have paintings that are 100% highlighted brushstrokes and others works that you cant even notice her brushstrokes at all, like the backgrounds in Ria's paintings, which is also extremily sad since its a part of her memory that her mind is trying to delete and this personality expresses it as the lack of strokes in the background and lack of details in the characters, the strong presence of red as a dangerous adult and yellow (a color associated with happiness and innocence) as a kid being abused, while the other paintings are full of color, details and A LOT of brush texture. Seriously I've worked with oil painting a lot and its HARD to get this soft painting for the backgrounds, the control she has to make geometric shapes and straight lines for the walls while the human fugures are painted with hard brushstrokes and messy lines is such a heartbreaking contrast. Amazing artist.

Oh, wow!I remember asking about Kim Noble on one of Blind Dweller’s community posts, so I am delighted to see this! I have DID myself, and Kim Noble has been my role model for years. Reading her autobiography was the kick that made me really engage with therapy. One mild correction: integration isn’t the only way someone with DID can recover. There’s also functional multiplicity: the entire system getting into a pattern of life that’s healthy for everyone. Integration and functional multiplicity are both accepted ways of recovery for people with DID!

i love how mimi painted the water in her singular work. it reminds me of multi-colored wool. it looks almost fuzzy, like a thick carpet or a hand-knitted sweater

I've been waiting for someone to talk about Kim's work for YEARS!!! Thank you for this!!!!

I don't have DID, but the paintings of most of her alterns resonate so much with me. Dissasociation can be really scary, but it saves lives, just like art. Thank you for making this video, great job.

I swear, Dawn's painting Armless Goddess is eerily similar to a dream I had once back when I was in the middle of a deep depression. It was short but memorable: I was being slowly crushed between two white slabs in a completely silent void-like environment. Trying to scream resulted in no sound, and I couldn't move despite not being held down. My dream was in greyscale, but Dawn's bright yellow, red, and orange pallet gives me a much more hopeful feeling than my dream did - like, despite the direness of the situation, there's still a flicker of hope.

This is absolutely breathtaking. The nuance of the mental health struggles and their reflection in this art is just on a level I’ve never personally seen.

This reminds me of my late aunt. She also had DID. I only met a few of her personalities, but I loved her all the same. She was an archer, artist, pool shark, etc. So while I've never seen this video's artist before (amazing btw) , I understand some of what the different artists are trying to convey. My aunt was into a myriad of things but often drew kokopelli and aliens on everyday objects. Her wife was also talented artist. She painted saw blades. I still don't know why. The messages in their art are right there in front of you and still the meanings are complex and illusive. But, I'm rambling on. Great video. 👍 I would suggest to anyone who would like to know more about someone else (who also was on Oprah I think) who has DID. It's not my late aunt. Read: "When Rabbit Howls" by The Troops of Trudy Chase. It's a dark book but like this person's art, hauntingly beautiful and insightful.

I've always seen examples of DID in speech, writing but to see it so vividly presented in art. To see the stark difference in style, in the way the brush strokes feel vastly different and somehow becomes singular at points. It's ... I dunno, it's fascinating.

I've been tirelessly searching for one artist in me for years and years and this lady has dozens 😕 In all seriousness mr Dweller this video is a masterpiece. You bring artists to light that so very much deserve more recognition. Thank you for this. It is fascinating how such beauty is born of such tragedy and suffering. The human mind is such an unsolvable puzzle and I can only hope as you've said that these multiple personalities are a shield and they are all at peace

I've heard of Ria Pratt before! They either didn't even mention or I completely forgot that she was a DID personality. She has so many paintings he didn't show here, seeing them all collected together is haunting.

my mom also has DID, I am an artist myself your work is beautiful Kim thank you for being so brave.

i studied her in high school for english, it was very interesting to see the drastic differences in style and subject matter. her mind is fascinating

The fact that your mind can wipe out memories is terrifying to me , imagine one day struggling to even remember why you are like this... Or why you have to do something because of something tragic when you were younger

I’ve never considered myself fully into art but your videos always entrance me so much. I’ve really come to love and enjoy art because of your videos and the way you explain the thing you clearly love. Thank you so much, you’re one of my favourite content creators.

This artist's story reminds me of Sybil's - terribly heartbreaking with a strong bit of mystery. And I think you are correct, Ria (and maybe Anon) may hold the deepest, most horrific secrets of what Patricia/Kim have survived.

When I first saw her art I thought it was a rare occurence for dissociative people to have many different styles. Then I started to give more freedom of expression to my alters and I was shocked how different the style was from one of them to the other. I am way more integrated now and the more global "me" still have access to the different styles/techniques. Except that now I can use them all in the same piece instead of feeling like " I " am hijacking somebody else's art. Her work also gave me more courage to paint about my traumas, which absolutely no art-therapist was ever able to do. Just a tiny bit vocabulary point: the modern understanding of the condition is that the personality is dissociated and the identities are multiple. "Alter" does NOT come from "alter ego" but from "ALTERnating identity": they are not "other me" they are "other PARTS OF me" even though the dissociation, when high, can make them feel alien. (Which is a survival mechanism for when the consciousness cannot bear with the pain of some events: they are alienated, dissociated, shoved under a rug and forgotten about until the person as a whole gathers enough ressources and feelings of safety in order to face them.) Another vocabulary / technical point: "integrating" and "fusing all the identities together" are understood as two different processes nowadays. "Integration" refers to allowing all the identities to access to all the ressources, all the memories, to connect to the here and now as well as to heal all the traumas. "Fusing the identities" is no longer seen as a requirement for healing, it is even seen as something that must NOT be forced but rather, just allow the system of identities to manage themselves and do what they want regarding fusion or not fusion. Have a look at the ISSTD Guidelines and the Blue Knot Foundation Guidelines to learn more about it. Also the books "Coping with trauma related dissociation" and "Treating trauma related dissociation". To know more about DID as a whole there is the book "The haunted self" if you really feel like reading something huge and complicated, "Healing the fragmented selves of trauma survivors" if you feel like reading something simpler, as well as the websites "DID-research" and "DIS-SOS".

This is an intriguing and amazing artist! I immediately recognized her by her photos and kept trying to figure out where I'd seen her before. It's highly possible it was from an episode of Oprah's and so I'm going to search that out. This woman's art and story blow me away! While I see there is a deep pain coming out in some of her personalities, yet because she has found her voice(s) through her art she is transcendent. Will be doing a deeper dive on her artworks, for sure. Thank you again Matt for your art videos, they are very compelling!

I’m blown away! I had never heard of this woman/these artists . She /they have my deepest respect. How amazing this body of work is, and how beautiful and precious is her daughter . May they all be blessed and protected in all their endeavors.

Oh my gosh! I have been in love with Kim's art for YEARS! I've been hoping you were going to cover her work at some point! i havent even started the video and i already know it's going to be a great one:) thank you for sharing so many wonderful artists

I have D.i.D. myself. I was diagnosed in 2021 after darkness through a psychotic breakdown. I paid for my diagnosis myself at a private practice. I've recently found your channel finding inspiration. Your voice is incredibly calming and grounding. But your content is fascinating and as I say inspiring. Im hoping to express various artworks that in themselves express what I experience with D.I.D. My advise to anyone who does art or is into art, you're not here to impress anyone, and you are here to express what you want. Be compassionate to others. Wonderful video. ❤

What an amazing woman, with so many amazing alters and beautiful art! I was a 90s kid, and going through school with undiagnosed autism was absolutely awful, and even now most people either can't understand, or don't care to. I can't imagine how difficult her life has been and probably still is. I'm so glad she has her daughter. Also, a side note, I hope this isn't disrespectful, but she's so pretty! Amazing video as always!

Bless this women! As difficult as it is living with so many people in one mind they are all gifted. Bless her daughter too.

Each one of your videos inspire me in different ways. Thank you for showing these artists to the world and for being so detailed! Your passion is palpable through your own art.

Knowing that DID happens from extreme trauma at a young age, looking at these pieces of art through both s phycological point of view as well as an artistic one, these paintings and personalities roles and beliefs are somehow all different but also centralized? Connected? Linked??? Idk but man, this is such impactful and meaningful and amazing and beautiful art. It's so crazy. Wow.

I read Kim Noble's book a long time ago in 2012 for a college art module I did based on DID. It was definitely a tough read in areas but so fascinating.

I am amazed. So much talent. I actually teared up when seeing these. Every piece is amazing, individual, and inspirational. Love and haunted by each image presented on screen.

As someone with the same condition and many of us that do art as a therapy and to learn about each Alter as individuals we look up to these people so much. Anons work is a personal favourite of mine. Definitely been a role model of our hosts for some time now. Thank you for the video -Oryx-

While this has worked for her, it's important to emphasize that DID can be utterly life ruining for some people. She benefits from the name she and her personalities have forged, but others find themselves with no job, no support, no attention. Blacked out periods of time wherein they've hurt the people around them when it wasn't really them, but another them inside of them. We should encourage people to do what's healthiest. These personalities are all shards of the whole. Protective layers, broken apart to function separately because the whole could no longer take the insane trauma they were enduring when the fracturing happened. If they can live a whole and complete and safe life shattered, wonderful. But most can't, and unifying, reintegrating, is the only option to heal.

If all of her people inside merged and integrated into a whole person, none of them would be lost. But rather, they would each blend their gifts together, and as she painted and lived life, all of them would still be seen and recognizable in her. They would, together, create a very rich and dynamic person. A brave, strong, very creative person who would finally find peace from those past memories.

What a fascinating video about a fascinating artist and her system of alters. By far, my favourite video that you've done so far!!

Kim Noble's art has struck me for years ty so much for doing a video on her

As soon as I'm done w this video.. I'm going to binge on every piece of work..... I'm fascinated and thank you for this video

kim nobles art means so much to me I’m so happy you made a video on her :’)) !!

F ing amazing, haunting, inspired and beautiful. Just wonderful.. As an artist who deals w mental illness and uses art to express myself... She is an inspiration No...she is a hero

This is the best coverage/treatment of Noble and their art I have ever seen. Have loved their work for years, and found great solace in their ability to express their different experiences and expressions through art, as someone who has struggled with a similar diagnosis for 20 years.

I had seen a video about her but it didn't go into detail showing her work they way you have. Truly interesting and extremely talented woman. Thanks for sharing this.

Your work on this channel is remarkable. Exceedingly professional.

your videos about artists are amazing! 🖤

Wow! Love the title to this one! I can relate, my friend, suffice it to say.....Always a pleasure to engage your content! Thanks so much for sharing Kim Noble's art with us!🔥🌹💜🌍

Congratulations and thank you for this presentation! I’m glad that I saw it. All the paintures from all personalities are beautiful and with meaning. She is more talentated than other artists that I saw in the last years. The brain is a great enigma!

Truly fascinating, thank you ever so much for sharing 💙

absolutely loved the video, I wonder if you could ever make a video about Gustave Doré and Max Ernst artworks. Doré was one of many artists that painted Dante's inferno and Max Ernst has a book called "A week of kindness" worth taking a look :))

Thank you for sharing this wonderful person and her amazing work!

I've been following her on Instagram and she's an incredibly sweet woman. It's always something new when she posts. Wonderful work! And thank you for the video! Very well done

your videos are so amazing! good job dude :)

I find your choice of artist always interesting. Kim Noble and her personas have works undeniably impressive. Always look forward to your videos. Happy Holidays good sir!

Please do more of these !! I subscribed because I love you’re art videos. Also dying for a new Beksińki breakdown ❤

very interesting video, blind dweller! keep up the great work.

Very fascinating and inspiring. I like the white thick paint figures the most i can feel it.

All your videos are awesome. Lots of insights and general info. Thx so much. Hope to be featured one day too. All the best! Nikke

Love your music in this. excellent stuff

I just came across your channel, I really love how you present these artists and how you deconstruct their personality's through their art. so thank you and keep on going! Also, I don't know if it's wanted or not but your speak a lot in rhymes, I don't know if you're conscious of it or not but I really enjoy it, you're kinda a poet presenter haha. have a great day!

Wow just wow. This is so amazing.

I’ve read Kim’s book multiple times . She’s an extraordinary woman and so are all the different alters. ❤❤❤

Thank you so much for your compassionate video. As a person with mental health issues, I know how easy it is for people to treat you like the other, as though your mental health struggles make you less than human. I'm incredibly happy to have been introduced to this incredibly strong woman. Also, I love the fact that what comes across in the video is the saving grace of a creative outlet. Even if the art or other creative endeavors don't turn you into the next Picasso, Mozart or Shakespeare is besides the point. The fact that the other personalities have artistic talent and that gave the media a reason to want to cover her and Kim Noble is brave enough to share them with us may give others in despair a guiding light to not give up and to keep searching for that something that will help them deal in a productive way. What an incredible woman.

This artist's photograph @3:50 nearly brought me to tears which took me by complete surprise. Those eyes are dams nearly bursting from all of her world's being held back. It's excruciating. What's weird is I don't get that from any other photo of her used here. On the painting side however @29:05 I get a similar impression. Weird thing is that's not her true eye color yet conveys the same emotions for me. I can't help but wonder if that personality who was present in the photograph is the one who painted the previously mentioned painting. I didn't think something as innocuous as a KZfaq video exploring a relatively unknown artist's work would leave me in such a mental state. Thank you.

Very heartwarming to hear that "art" can be an outlet and a saving grace for conditions that the individual themselves often don't fully understand...

Thank you for this video! As someone with DID its nice to see people actually care about how people cope with it. It helps way more than you could ever know. One of my parts and I are artists and I think you may have introduced us to a new muse. Thank you :)

y'all really need to go check out Don's work, his entire body of work is so so so good.

Please in the future look into Stanislav Szukalski, super interesting man with a tragic story Love your videos, they really inspire me ❤

I knew a an artist-a friend of mine for a trgically short time who may have had similar multiple personalities judging from the range of his enormous talent and the styles of several different canvasses. Eugene unfortunately took his own life -a really tragic terrible void -to know someone so talented and so troubled and unable to offer any solace...

I've been struggling a bit lately but seeing how much it can help people going through way worse stuff kind of makes me wanna open up Photoshop and get back to making digital art but it's hard to do when you struggle with depression I just don't have the energy to be as creative as I used to be

OMG is this the same artist who has been identified in "conspiracy" circles as a victim of trauma-based mind control? Specifically "monarch/Butterfly" "programming"? Holy shit, wow, I think it is

Love your vids you deserve more likes

16:00 this painting is so interesting to me. It appears to be pained with a pallet knife and yet the figures look like they are real objects with shadows like distorted marble statues.

10 mins ago! Love your videos Blind Dweller!!!

Incredible. I always thought it was strange, how I have drastically different styles. d.i.d. comes with a lot of shame for the range of mind and personality. I feel like finally there is a lot of acceptance for art and people. Thnx art family 🎨🌞🖌️💛

i couldn't find much on Kim Noble when i first heard of her, i'm glad you discovered her so i could learn more! I find Ria Pratt's work to be the most captivating for me. Especially "Ted Saw All."

Thanks, that was great 👍

So fascinating!

great stuff. Love your videos. what video editing software do you use if i may ask for the slow zooms and pans?

I have an undiagnosed dissociative disorder - it isn't DID, because there are no amnesic walls. My alters are just sort of 'around'. They still have different styles from one another when drawing or writing, and I find myself relating to a lot of this often beautiful, sometimes disturbing, sometimes saddening art. One 'goes with the flow' as opposed to my usual meticulous style, and one has harsher, blunter themes. Thank you for being so respectful towards artists with trauma and mental disorders. It's inspiring and gives me some hope - obviously the two are often closely intertwined, but it's refreshing to hear 'unorthodox' art spoken of with acceptance, especially for someone very critical of their own art. I'm binging a bunch of these videos atm and it's helping me come to terms with not everything I want to put down on paper is going to be a masterpiece lol. Even still, it'll be worth it. 💗

several years ago i came across an article about the art of the ria pratt alter, and shortly (?) after that i stumbled upon an interview where kim went through several of her alters as part of an interview but i somehow never made the connection that they were the same person until recently when i watched this for the first time

what a fantastic job she has done protecting herself.

Thank you for sharing Ms. Noble's story. The works of the artists within her as poignant and honest as it gets. Keep up the good work.

I appreciate your comments on how making Art can be life-saving as it definitely saved mine ❤

She fascinates me. And some of the art is interesting.

I love your channel! You have covered several mentally ill artists. I am mentally ill myself but I manage it with medication. I was wondering if you had ever considered the art of Daniel Johnston and Wesley Willis. Both were also musicians (in Wesley's case you can use that term loosely) but they both had very interesting styles.

You're good. This is deep, and scary. I just suddenly started painting about 7 months ago. I didn't tell anyone till this year. But my family doesn't know yet. They won't understand.

I know that KZfaq wouldn’t be happy with certain topics but art isn’t supposed to solve issues all the time. It’s supposed to chew on the problem. I find it a disservice to not talk about uncomfortable topics because this what motivates Patricia and the other parts of her. It’s tiresome things have to become sanitized and watered downed. I guess I just want to sayI love your channel and I believe it to be one of the best art channels on KZfaq. So it sucks that KZfaq can be wack.

I never see such beauty for a person to have so munch personality while each have their own unique art style❤.😮

a remarkable presentation on a remarkable human being. it seems to me that noble's harrowing path and her resultant, astounding courage are (in the words of this avowed atheist), as close to miraculous as anything i've come across. chilling works taken on their own, when seen in context they become monstrously sad, like war reportage from the front lines of a very private war. inspiring and terrifying in equal measure. does a monograph exist of her/their work, or an exhibit catalogue? if not, taschen get on that please. thanks as always for your terrific work.

Thank you

As someone who has DID, theses paintings speak and resonate with me a lot. We also use art to cope with my disorder, like how Noble did, and they can look so different depending on who is out at the time. I love hearing about different painters, and it means a lot to me to hear about someone who I can relate to so much

One of my favorite things at the fair every year is the student art. You see these works that are so incredible makes you wonder how people can be so talented This lady is truly amazing

At 14:43 I think the end of the spiral says "spring breath"

Fascinating and painful but exquisite artwork

Happy New Year guys!!!

Very beautiful stuff. I would be very interested in knowing about the no name's technique. If anyone has any idea I would love to hear. :)

Okay, that's it, I'm gonna try to make more self portraits / art when I'm having a bipolar episode or a panic attack. I get so caught up in generally not liking myself / my work that I forget how therapeutic it is just to splash some paint around. My new psych doctor tried to push daily journaling multiple times in our intro appointment yesterday, which was kind of funny in a "I don't have time to explain why you're wrong" kind of way. She kinda had a point re: finding ways to deal with my memory frustration though tbh. At least art can be open to evolving interpretation, even when I can't understand or relate to what I was feeling. I can still enjoy color and texture. Words just make me feel so disconnected with past me. My favorite part is Patricia's "your guess is as good as mine" attitude towards some of the art. "I was here" like a hand print on a cave wall, or rude grafitti in Pompeii, or a student carving into a desk. It doesn't really matter if anyone else gets it.