My body of work strives to explore the introspection and contemplation of gender often experienced by transgender and nonbinary individuals. Through figure and portrait communicating both the inward feelings of gender as well as the exterior expression; with emphasis on these feelings and expressions not always aligning in a traditional way. Rejecting gender norms and traditional expressions of gender as a nonbinary person can be extremely freeing. By combining these expressions in unique ways, nonbinary people can find representation- this representation may not be immediately recognizable by cisgender individuals. For example, it may be intrinsic knowledge for myself to represent my gender and identity in the way that I do with pronouns and exterior expression, while to cisgender people it may be confusing to outwardly experience without my own inner context to explain. With this series, I hope to give a window into my inner context to people who may not grasp the concept of nonbinary gender experiences, as well as a mirror to those who do. 

My work with both the figure and the portrait expresses these freedoms in expressing oneself without the constricting ideals placed upon sex- and by using figure to subvert these gendered expectations it creates a space where people may be able to understand how unique experiences with gender can exist removed from the binary. Challenging the ideas of male and female; exploring both the ‘third option’ as well as what I like to refer to as the ‘void’ of gender expression. Differentiating between the experience of being a binary trans person versus a nonbinary trans person and how both identities are similar but different and unique in their own ways. Exploring the relationships between sex and gender; and therefore gender and society- how upon birth we are placed into these boxes; and to challenge them is usurping the deepest and ‘first’ societal ideal we learn as human beings. Exploring gender versus sex with these societal constraints, subverting them as a reference to revolutionary ideas, pushing against the binary of a wider scope of ideals.