# MX Missing Pieces of Our Puzzled Identity

+ MASLOWS Hierachy of Needs

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- Physiological Needs:

These are the most basic needs for survival, including food, water, shelter, and sleep.

- Safety Needs:

Once physiological needs are met, individuals seek safety and security, such as job security, financial stability, and protection from harm.

- Love and Belonging Needs:

This level involves the desire for social connection, including friendship, intimacy, and a sense of belonging to a group.

- Esteem Needs:

These needs relate to self-worth, confidence, and recognition from others, encompassing both self-esteem (dignity, mastery) and external esteem (respect, reputation).

- Self-Actualization:

This is the highest level, where individuals strive to achieve their full potential, pursue creative expression, and experience personal growth.

+ GPT conversation

- Help me come up with the illustration idea that I have in my head. Kind of mock it up. It is this. Four or five adults. Adult babies. I feel that adults are just big babies in big bodies. But I want to make that clear that they are adult babies. Each baby has one or two pieces, puzzle pieces in their hand. And they're missing puzzle pieces themselves. They are a puzzle, so they're looking for their missing puzzle piece. And they're putting it in others while wandering around and others are doing the same. Meanwhile, there is a fifth adult baby that places the piece inside themselves. The missing piece is the one they have in their hand.

- Got it. Here’s a rough concept sketch described in detail—I’ll also mock it up visually if you confirm you’d like that:

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### Concept Title:

### “The Puzzle of Being Human”

#### Visual Composition:

- Scene Layout: A soft, dreamlike open space—like a playroom-meets-cosmos vibe (optional)—to symbolize both vulnerability and timelessness.

- Characters: 5 adult babies—clearly grown adults but styled in oversized baby onesies, pacifiers hanging from their necks, exaggerated proportions (round cheeks, soft features, slight wrinkles)—evoking both humor and melancholy.

#### Character Actions:

1. Adult Baby #1

- Holding two puzzle pieces.

- Looks confused, holding one out toward another baby.

- Has a hole in their own chest or head where a piece is missing.

2. Adult Baby #2

- Receiving a puzzle piece from #1, smiling.

- Also missing a piece in their torso.

- Holding out their own puzzle piece to another.

3. Adult Baby #3 & #4

- In mid-exchange, distractedly swapping puzzle pieces but not checking if they actually fit their own gaps.

- One is trying to force a piece into another, frustrated.

- Comedic yet sad.

4. Adult Baby #5 (Center or Slightly Isolated)

- Calm, reflective face.

- Holding one piece that perfectly fits their own chest gap.

- About to insert it into themselves—or already has.

- Subtle glow or shift in color around them to signify self-realization or inner peace

#### Stylistic Notes

- Use puzzle-piece-shaped voids in the body, subtly integrated—not grotesque but metaphorical.

- A mix of pastel colors and muted tones, with the 5th baby having a slight golden or warm hue.

- Faces can be expressive—each showing a slightly different emotional state: confusion, searching, joy, frustration, peace

#### Symbolism:

- Adult babies = emotional immaturity or vulnerability in adults.

- Puzzle pieces = parts of ourselves we try to complete or outsource.

- Others’ pieces = misplaced attempts at validation or healing.

- The self-inserting piece = self-awareness, self-love, growth.

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- we all are a mosaic like puzzle. The pieces of ourselves come from all the various people places, things culture music that help make us who we are.

- The pieces in our life include all of the Maslow’s hierarchy needs that must be met. And when we don’t get what we want and need we manipulate and create instances or scenarios to get it either by man, manipulation, or force.

- We’re all living lives our lives, attempting to find those missing pieces in our lives, sometimes overcompensating by sleeping with many women or many men to try to fulfill the need for love and affection

- Sometimes we are stealing robbing, taking from others, their peace

- When the whole time comes from Inside, we give ourselves the peace. We have the peace all along.

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