Teenage Musings On Gender Dysphoria

This is a collage I created when I was around 19/20 years old and going through a spot of gender dysphoria. I was born male without any notable physical abnormalities, but due to all kinds of reasons and influences on my life I began to identify more as female between the age of around 17/18 through to 23/24 years old. The character of sorts depicted here is twisting and turning, embracing itself, growing in a floral kind of way, blooming, coming of age, there’s an eroticism there too with the choice of photo cutting. I have digitised this artwork and applied a nice homogenising filter which gives it a soft flowing feeling. Some of the deeper, darker red tones were achieved with the addition of my own blood to the magenta ink (I did have a bit of a vampire/werewolf obsession going on at the time).