Paintings and Drawings express the multi-layered process of discovering identity. While “choosing” a gender or sexual expression or sense of self may seem simple and pre-determined, I believe it is complex and can shift over the course of a lifetime. A variety of media—paint, ink, ground pigment, glue, drawing materials—express this complexity and the way identity emerges through a layering of experience. The arrival of new input—internal and external—begs the question, was there ever a “true self” to begin with? Or, is there a continual mapping process with no beginning or end?