This is a new series of collages I’ve been working on in quarantine. Each one is based on a porn image I became obsessed with as a teenager recreated using macro photographs of my own skin. I was 15 years old when my family first got a high-speed Internet connection, before tumblr existed, and the Internet consisted mostly of independent personal websites. Diving into these atomized archives and discovering the diversity of kinks and desires in the world was an awakening. Porn played a central role in my process of self-discovery, and it’s not a coincidence that I came out of the closet that same year, in 1999. Having revisited these same images for decades, they resonate with me like a cherished belonging. Here I map my own flesh onto their contours.