Pieces Like A Lizard is a series of staged photographic portraits made with friends and non-models in unfamiliar locations. Through props, gestures and loosely directed performances, the work explores photography as a space for projection, fantasy and self-construction. The images focus on moments where performance and sincerity begin to collapse into one another, using the camera as both a theatrical device and a reflective surface. Emerging through collaboration between photographer and subject, the photographs examine the tension between constructed image-making and the spontaneous ways people inhabit objects, gestures and performances.