In this work I merge two images, a portrait of myself and the wings of Mothra, the feminine moth-like monster from the Godzilla films. The composite was photographed, reprocessed, printed in ink, photographed again, and finally laser-printed onto a black zinc surface.

I chose Mothra for her almost divine presence: vast and powerful, at times reborn from an egg, carrying a mythological aura of resurrection. Often portrayed as a positive figure, she protects humanity or restores the balance of nature.

As in Family Imprint, where I placed a relative’s birthmark upon my face, here too I fuse another image with my own body, overlaying it onto myself. Something shifts in my representation through this act of merging and mediation. From the layering of images and their translation through different mediums, the body longs to remake itself, to undergo transformation—from body to creature, from photograph to metal.

The work resonates with the body as a threshold of passage: no longer a boundary between inside and outside but a mechanism that both contains and regenerates. It is not simply a woman, nor merely a monster, nor solely a subject, but a system in metamorphosis. The body does not seek to appear as it is, but to become something else, to be created anew through merging.