Oil painting on linen board.<\/p>\n
51 x 40.5cm.<\/p>\n
This self-portrait sought to capture the moment I started to come to see my chest as part of myself, a year after having top surgery.<\/p>\n
There are many selfies of trans people taken waking up ecstatic after their gender affirming surgery is complete. But healing from my surgery was far more mental than physical. A process of gradual adjustment to a sudden change that was wanted, but nevertheless a shock to my system.<\/p>\n
It was a calling into a body that I had kept a mile away until that point. My brain took months to knit together that the mental image of myself and my body now aligned. This is not a self-portrait of top surgery scars. It’s a self-portrait marking the specific moment where I finally saw myself, embodied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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