The Becoming Series consists of scores of small-scaled photographs of elaborate configurations of poultry meat and skin fashioned into hermaphroditic or undifferentiated genitalia. Inspired by stories of Herculine Barbin and others, I sought to create phantasmagoric bodies that evaded easy classification. I harnessed the allotropic nature of photography to mirror this embodiment; the figure is at once real and fabricated.

This series serves as an elegy for those who suffered in the craze to pathologize and force real lives into rigid taxonomies. It also contemplates the larger condition of corporeality as beautiful and grotesque, resplendent but incomplete.