DEADNAME, explores concepts of identity, queerness, self image and mental health. Subverting photographic portraiture, I create images of my own body using music software, changing the code of digital files, and rephotographing images on screens. I investigate ideas of bodily metamorphosis by using a process of corruption and digital abstractions; moving past binary or traditional views in portraiture. The chaos conveys a sense of anxiety and depression that has been attached to my own sense of queerness. I combine all of these elements in my work to have a larger discussion about my gender dysphoria and unease of not feeling wholly male or female, but nonbinary. This series showcases how both revealing and concealing can act in a transformation of self. By performing for the camera and experimenting with a distorted process in the images, I seek out new ways to tell the story of how queer bodies can be a site of transformation and self-discovery.