My work engages with gender and performativity, personal relationships, and the violence of hegemonic gazes, as these matters impinge upon my own body and identity. Navigating my existence as a young Asian American trans woman has long felt unaccompanied and demoralizing. Looking to media, images I saw of “myself” were nothing but exotic, fetishized, monstrous, disgusting, and shameful. Like Mary Shelley’s creature, being brought into a world of pain, suffering, and exclusion, has fueled a rage in me against the conditions in which I struggle to exist. My work contends with and subverts the cultural idea of these images intended to delineate degraded forms of personhood or subjection and visual exploitation of the body. By repurposing the visual structure and language of these forms of photographic subjection, my work engages in the paradoxical capacity of photographs to rupture the gaze of the systems which created them.