athena combines self-portraits and videography to demonstrate her relationship to self-understanding, queerness, and the gender binary – pondering notions of the masculine, the feminine, and the androgynous. athena is representing the metaphorical closet she often finds herself coming in and out of by making art within her own physically confined spaces. athena’s work, glass walls, is written entirely in lowercase letters to emphasize her fragility, anxiety, and desire to minimize her physical and emotional presence. expected and occasionally demanded to be so vulnerable with her own sexuality, in an environment that grows increasingly more hostile to openly queer people, glass walls is a window to understanding her search for acceptance.