Before/After (2004-2022)

Before/After is a pencil and charcoal black and white self portrait showing fragments of my body at different stages of my life. The work shows my hands, my right foot, my arms, face, and back as well as a winding grassy path below the floating body fragments. I began this artwork before my FTM transition and before the impact of my psoriatic arthritis mutilans. I finished it in 2022 with additions of my athritic hands and a foot and a depiction of my post-transition self.

My own history of severe psoriatic arthritis has changed my my hands significantly as well as my relationship with my own hands and how I depict them.

Before/After (2004-2022) was exhibited as a part of IKOUII’s Online Art Exhibition “Bodies” (Summer 2022).