Incorporating macro photographic approaches into a practice of exploratory and purposefully joyful self portraiture, Schnei decontextualizes their own body in order to depict something larger than sole physicality: the visceral pleasure of existing in a gender non-conforming body. They use unnatural colors and heightened textures to invite the viewer to delight in a queer space of sensuality while reconsidering normative desire. Their work is vibrant, indulgent, and celebratory; it exists in a realm that subverts the traditional gaze of a trans body to escalate it from beautiful to sublime.