Emerging from that larger body of work, thESE pieceS BELONG to a focused study isolating the torso as a way of shifting attention away from the face and its immediate legibility.
In removing the portrait’s most recognizable marker, the work resists fixed readings of identity and instead centers the body as a site of ambiguity and multiplicity. This image holds attributes that may be read as masculine, feminine, neither, or all. The image invites a slower, more open encounter, where identity is not defined, but continuously felt.