My initial images of selfhood were defined by uncertainty, repression, and bad faith. All around me, Confucian morality and Christian mythology laid bare a rigid social fabric, shaping my perception of power, salvation, and social responsibility. Image making became a tool of self-preservation, sustaining my queer sexuality and awakening in me the liberatory potential of figuration. Through ornamentation and narrative, my work reckons with fractured allegories to contend with the power dynamics that shape my origins and future.