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What I am essentially trying to create are 'transexual artworks' that, like the 'transexual objects' I previously created, force the viewer to question their preconceived ideas regarding gender. The objects were intended to challenge perceptions of gender stereotypes by combining clothes associated with specific genders with the genitals of the other.
The photos I have been producing are combining facial parts of different genders and identities.

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In Joel-Peter Witkin's work, he not only uses these printed papers in front of the face, but makes them into a mask - this is evident in Woman on a Table (1987)

These masks are not only obscuring the subject's face - or part of the subject's face - and identity, but is also adding and creating a new identity through the image on the mask.
I want to obscure my subject's face but also create a new gender through the 'mask' having an image of the opposite gender.

In Witkin's work The Eggs of my Amnesia (1996)

the faces of the two subjects are covered by such masks. From the top half they look to be a man and a woman yet as your eyes scan down the page it become clear that the woman has a penis.
The lines between genders become so blurred and the viewer's expectations become distorted.