Taking part in the Masculinity Exhibition, curated by River Davis, my work contributed a deliberately unsettling, surreal perspective on masculinity as something both inherited and imposed. The piece uses hyper-realistic 3D character design and symbolic props—violence, vulnerability, money, intimacy, and ornament—to collide traditionally “masculine” power markers with fragility, absurdity, and exposure. By exaggerating anatomy and placing conflicting objects side by side, the work questions the performance of strength and control, highlighting how masculinity can feel constructed, contradictory, and psychologically loaded. Positioned within the exhibition’s broader conversation, the piece invites viewers to confront discomfort head-on and reconsider which rituals, myths, and visual languages of masculinity are worth dismantling—and which might be reimagined into something more honest and humane.