My practice spans textiles, plastics, and digital drawings to explore the relationship of femininity to melancholia, the family, and empathy. Bright colors, cheerful motifs, and alluring materials encourage viewers to find joy in the work, while distorted images and abject forms belie a more sinister truth. Elusive and illusory comfort is central to my exploration of the ways in which femininity is forced onto bodies and subjectivities: whereby something that feels comforting, nostalgic, and even humorous, can be the source of deep melancholia and discontent. Drawing from my experience as a nonbinary person, my practice addresses a simultaneous disgust of femininity and the desire to find comfort within it.