for this piece i focused on project 2025 and trumps campaign specifically against gender affirming care and to show the emotion felt from having access to those resources, I decided to split a playboy model in half, showing the disconnection of mind and body often felt by transgender people. figure is rubbing testosterone on themself in the left half, provoking the flowers growing from the waist, representing the growth of something new in your own body, like what people feel from beginning hormone therapy usually. Distortion of face with male features and warping of the paper texture for skin. made with playboy magazines, pressed flowers, posca pen, mod podge and glue.