My large-scale paintings explore race, class, and gender through my experience as an indigenous, brown, transgender male. I depict naked brown bodies inhabiting upper-class spaces to question who owns and deserves to occupy specific spaces in order to challenge both historical and contemporary representations of marginalized people. The figures’ body language as well as top surgery scars and lack of discernible genitalia allow the viewer to explore the nuances of being a transgender person of color in cisgender white-dominated spaces. This artwork deals with processing my father’s role in my life as an illegal immigrant and therefore absent father. The two figures are meant to be representations of my father and I, with the cutting of hair serving as both, an act of assimilation, and protection.