For over forty years, Lynn Hershman Leeson has created work that blurs real and virtual worlds. Between 1974 and 1978, Leeson enacted a longform experimental work, living as a fictional woman named Roberta Breitmore. To fully embody this role, the artist made physical changes to her appearance, as this chart of “suggested alterations” details, and created a unique body language and backstory. Leeson documented Breitmore’s existence through her belongings, identification cards, letters to her psychiatrist, and photographs of her appearances in public. The artist also hired other individuals (some female, some male) to play Breitmore, often simultaneously, further complicating the idea of anyone being singular or authentic. As a whole, the project suggests that a person’s identity is not fixed, but subject to change, suppression, or cooptation.