M. depicts a pixelated body whose gender and identity cannot be clearly determined. What initially appears as a form of censorship not only obstructs the gaze, but also unsettles any certainty about what is being seen. Pixelation usually suggests that definite information exists beneath it and is simply being withheld. Here, however, that presumed clarity cannot be restored. Posture, anatomy and sexual characteristics remain ambiguous.

The pixel becomes a productive disruption. It interrupts the attempt to immediately read the body as either male or female. In place of hidden information emerges the possibility of not having to be fully legible. The work thus shifts the question away from what a body is and towards the expectation that it should be clearly identified and categorized.

What is normally a digital phenomenon is permanently fired onto glass using ceramic pigment. The glitch is not corrected, but materialized and preserved.