Haendel uses the idea of the portrait to explore contemporary definitions of masculinity, power, and public identity. He undertakes the challenging task of drawing a portrait of what it is to be a man, or perhaps what is expected of men, in images that span a broad range of representations.
Like Butler, he thinks the representation of gender and gender confirmation is always changing and is a state of doing. It is how you act and not what you are just assigned at birth. How you portray yourself is how you can be seen in gender. When people defy the norms of gender, like portraying masculinity in different ways then you are exploring societies definition of gender.
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