“Between the Eyes” explores the tension between inherited identity and societal beauty standards. This piece was inspired by an individual who inherited their father’s more prominent nose and how they came to accept its impact on their self-image and beauty standards. The piece depicts an artist chiseling at a woman’s large nose, symbolizing the internal struggle to reshape genetic features and erase that part of themselves and their heritage. Watching their parents criticize the same nose highlights the generational conflict of self-acceptance. Cameras capturing the scrutiny of the nose and the skier racing down it, referencing the “ski slope nose” ideal, underscore the desire to conform to a beauty standard that feels distant from the nose they were born with.