Artist Note:

Quite possibly the most important self portrait project I’ll ever undertake. For the past year I have been deciding how to reveal this information, and this is how it manifests. Torn between the desire to keep my identity sacred and safe, or the necessity of having to tell everyone that I’m changing my name (among other things). This portrait marks the beginning of the rest of my life. Originally part of a series of Polaroid self portraits taken back in September of 2025 to mark me beginning to take hormones, this bust became the tool through which I familiarized myself with a new name. Now blown up and installed physically, it represents a one-way viewing experience of the most precious aspect of myself. No matter how you feel about it, you have now seen it, and can never take it down. I will likely never return to the site of the installation, so even if a bear or something accidentally destroys it I won’t really know, nor care that much. I hope a bird or ant colony make a beautiful home of it.

Thanks for everything, love you all so much.