Under the pseudonym Mata Lee, I explore portraiture as a territory where the human figure becomes a construction an identity collage, a face in perpetual mutation. My work draws inspiration from manga aesthetics, but I turn away through a stylization that amplifies the distance between the natural and the artificial: tiny eyes set far apart, a nose and mouth reduced to their essential forms, almost like fragmented clues of a human presence. I build my characters from fragments taken from different individuals: the eyes of one person, the nose of another, the mouth of a third—sometimes placed on a body that belongs to none of them. This process is a direct metaphor for our era: a time when faces are modular, when identity can be recomposed, falsified, optimized, manipulated like a digital file. Through this deliberately minimalist and off-kilter aesthetic, I question the boundary between the real and the manufactured—not to condemn it, but to understand how the artificial can also become an expressive language, a space for freedom and reinvention.