The Sugar Project is a series that began with my beautiful pink Ford F-150 truck named Sugar. The series was about the appropriation of gender and the convergence of the masculine and the feminine. I was interested in how things get classified and coded, as well as how people associate with inanimate objects. These interests of mine very much relate to how I move through the world and think about relationships, both personal and general. The deer has become an important player in my vocabulary of personal iconography. It began as the iconic trophy of hunting and has shifted over the years as I continue to reference it. I have always seen it as something quintessentially masculine: the trophy, the reference to hunting culture, the readability of the antler rack as a masculine symbol/indicator while at the same time feeling very feminine. The delicacy of the deer form suggests femaleness, strong yet delicate, swift and graceful. This draws into question the assignment of gender to various objects.