In epoch, stage, shell, I make black-and-white photographs in which I used my body as author and subject to perform sculptural postures for the camera. I mimicked poses found in Greco-Roman ethnographic, art historical, and commercial images. In this work, I cut up, layered, reconstructed, and rephotographed these collaged compositions to strategically emphasize or disguise the evidence of my interventions, rendering the images both whole and fragmented. The photographs complicate the legacy of the Western art historical canon, proposing a messier standard of beauty: mixed, eroded, and patched together.