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This self-portrait emerges from Donna Haraway’s cyborg theory, using collage to explore how we embody our environments and exist in relation to multispecies entanglements rather than as isolated selves. The vibrant, fragmented materials of the body refuse singular narratives of identity, while the face\u2014rendered in charcoal\u2014introduces deliberate fragility. As a transgender person, self-portraiture has often felt fraught, but here I turn to realism as an act of archiving, documenting my features at this moment, knowing they will transform through transition. 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