Digital Photograph // Mask: Yarn, plastic, elastic // My recent work investigates the definition of sexual orientation and classification through adornment, prostheses, and cultural ritual. My masks become a catalyst for characterization to occur. The models assumption of power, vulnerability, masculinity or femininity, makes for an exaggerated sexual identity that blurs the lines between excepted sexual cues and creates a narrative for defining sexuality that is more complex, diverse and androgynous. Both liberating and controlling these masks force their wearer to deal with their own understandings of sexuality and how they choose to define themselves within it.