I make images that engage with the literal meaning of “representation as a repeat presentation.” Through this iterative representation, I aim, and playfully fail, to create entities that embody the contradictions of identity formation. They are between and beyond Chinese and American; boyish and nonbinary; self and other; animal and human. These spaces and faces allow for their paradox to feel truer than direct depiction. With face masks, knockoff cartoons, suggestive symbols, and craft techniques, the beings and forms in my work translate a number of contradictory voices into a unified chorus.