For the last couple years I have delved into self-portraiture and started exploring themes surrounding ego, trauma, and vanity. With this photograph I wanted to subvert the self-portrait while using its traditional standards; part of my practice has long been critiquing the conventional zeitgeist of the photographic world, while also contributing to it. I want to destabilize topics such as beauty, gender, and etiquette; all which have been ideas that have defined most of my life – due to the fact that I have historically ‘failed’ the conventional norms of what beauty, gender, and etiquette is. By concealing my face and body I leave the viewer to interact with what is left: a delicate portrait of an androgynous monster with knotted hair in a beer t-shirt.