This body of work addresses issues around the standards of beauty imposed by western culture as well around challenging the idea that it represents a failure to reflect a cultural ideal on queer bodies. I started working and questioning the idea revolving around the struggle of breaking out of heterosexuality and the default beauty standard as a queer individual. Using photography, sculpture and video, I challenge my cultural background, and gender, and I engage in political resistance. I utilize and manipulate materials such as wax, liquid foam, paint, condoms, and concrete blocks to construct—and interrupt—my own narratives. I use and misuse these materials loosely, much as I do Christian symbolism, to reshape a patriarchal, heteronormative system. I’m interested in challenging and fighting by disrupting, demanding, deconstructing, and creating visibility on what lies outside of the norm. I want to question how a queer body should be or act, and I look to create political resistance by not following or recreating a heteronormative culture.