Like Cindy Sherman, Nadia Lee Cohen and other (female) artists, I use myself as the model for each of the picture in the series. However, by deliberately staging, disguising and transforming myself in every picture, I am negating the concept of the classical self-portrait. None of the pictures in REJECTED is of me, and yet I am present in the manner in which I have imagined them, dressed them, lit them, composed them, photographed them and, of course, posed for them. I do so deliberately to abstract away from the individual “cases” that inspire the series – thus avoiding the risk of portraying the women as “curiosities” or “victims” – and instead use myself as a transformative material in the service of a wider argument; to humanise and present broader experiences with bodily deviation from a female gaze.