When I was four, I found a razor in my aunt’s bathtub and shaved my legs and arms, then ran to my mother to confess. From a young age, I was aware of two things—first, that I must alter my body to be desirable, and second, that exercising agency over my body was shameful.

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Through the lens of non-traditional self-portraiture, my work reclaims that agency. Using elements of play, absurdity, and the surreal, I examine what it means to inhabit a femme body in the 21st century, often probing the intersection between childhood innocence and adult trauma. Appropriating silicone as a fake “skin,” I blur the line between authenticity and artifice, revealing how bodies are idealized, manipulated, and commodified in contemporary culture, as seen in products like prosthetics, implants, and sex toys. Skin becomes a boundary, a surface that embodies both power and vulnerability, resistance and absorption. Using this language, I investigate how women today occupy a liminal space of ambiguity amid a technologically mediated, pre-Roe society. Through compressed faces, disjointed limbs, and body-object hybrids in states of flux and reconfiguration, I suggest that power may reside not in wholeness, but in the fragment itself.