A close-up of a person's face, with short hair and a serious expression, seen through a grainy, blue-tinted static.

In 2025, J completed the paper ‘The History, Construction and Application of the Transgender Gaze in Cinema’, an essay that sought to establish a new way of seeing the transgender body on screen. Since then, they have been working on a series of moving image artworks that are in conversation with that paper and their continued writings on the ‘trans-coding of the body from flesh to malleable digital imagery’.