"How can I illustrate the experience of identity loss through self portraiture?"

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To answer this question, I explored factors that come with losing yourself to your environment such as academic validation, compulsory heterosexuality, internalized transphobia, etc. I hone in on nuances these external factors have on the self, such as rejection of the self, constant perfectionism, and accommodation to others. However at the end of loss, there is always something to be found. I went from “How have I been affected by loss?” to “What do I find in loss?”

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Click on each piece's title to learn more about its purpose and process! Attached with every piece are reference pictures, sketchbook pages, and/or notes I took while creating it.