These portraits capture moments where multiple visual logics collide - formal and casual, constructed and spontaneous, intimate and distanced. Like mixed metaphors in language, they combine elements that shouldn't necessarily work together but create their own unexpected sense. Organized intuitively rather than conceptually, this collection reflects my interest in how the photographic process generates its own contradictions. The layering of the conceit with each subject's self-presentation, combined with varying degrees of costuming and the unpredictable element of chance, creates visual 'sentences' that follow their own grammar rather than conventional logic. Each portrait exists in the space between intention and outcome, where what actually emerges through the act of photographing often differs from what anyone involved might have anticipated. The resulting images are contradictory versions of their subjects and exists in the collision of multiple approaches to presentation.