The fleeting self-portrait is a series that engages non-binary identity and gender expression as unstable, processual states. Drawing from lived moments, often mediated through photography, the works examine how gender materializes through objects, gestures, and affective encounters, foregrounding materiality as an active agent in the construction of the self.

The paintings return to moments when gender surfaced — through the deliberate performativity of drag or the quiet emergence of a spontaneous feminine gesture — allowing a rarely visible feminine presence to appear on the page. Rather than proposing a unified self-image, the series assembles fragments of identity, staging a dialogue between multiple, sometimes contradictory, facets of selfhood.

Transformation, rather than completion, guides the work. Objects and symbols — makeup, fabric, glitter, or a flower that once sparked an awareness of femininity — operate as thresholds through which gender is embodied, mediated, and reconfigured. 

These material traces question how gender is not only performed, but relationally produced through what surrounds the body. Watercolor, with its immediacy and unpredictability, supports this inquiry by privileging responsiveness over control. Its fluidity mirrors the instability of identity itself, allowing the paintings to register vulnerability, permeability, and the fleeting nature of becoming.