Parts of Me, Not

2024

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Before the double mastectomy operation, I created numerous images, prints, and casts of my own breasts to preserve the memory of what once was. In this series, scanned images of my own breasts are abstracted into a space where they exist separately from the body, fragmented, as if cut into pieces with a paper shredder.
Entitled My Parts, Not, in a way I reflect on my inner conflict, having grown up as a queer woman who dreamed of being breastless, a dream that was paradoxically fulfilled through cancer prevention surgery.