Coming into my own version of gender euphoria has come in parts and pieces. My body is deconstructed and reconstructed, it is my own, it is in transition, and it is not just a sum of my parts. 我自己的性别愉快是跨一步一步得到了。我的身体被解构和重建。我身体只是我自己的。正在转型，也不只是各部分的总和。

周杰意 Jiéyì Zhou is a primarily visual interdisciplinary artist who has shapeshifted through many mediums. Jiéyì was born in Nagoya, Japan and bounced between elementary school in Iowa and summers in Shanghai before landing in rural Kentucky as a queer, trans, and mixed race tween. They left Kentucky at 18 years old to create a new life honoring their authenticity and belonging. Making art has been a refuge to return to because it is a way of tapping into the generative space between words. Through art, Jiéyì opens towards play and imagination so that they can untangle the truthiness of a story and generate new possibilities in the world. They hold an MFA in 4d art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where they focused on socially-engaged arts practices.