This essay accompanies the master’s solo exhibition To Cut a Long Story Short, presented at Konstfack in February 2025. It explores the conceptual and material development of the three works featured in the exhibition, examining how personal experience and institutional structures intersect in artistic practice. Through three chapters, the essay reflects on themes of abstraction, bodily knowledge, and systemic regulation. The first chapter considers the work Partition in relation to cognitive disruption and state imagery. The second chapter discusses Protocol, engaging with hospital imagery and the role of the hand as a site of tactile knowledge. The final chapter expands the scope to explore Waiting Game, a work addressing the bureaucratic processes surrounding gender identity diagnosis. Drawing on theoretical frameworks by Magnus Fredriksson, Susan Stryker & Nikki Sullivan, Judith Butler, and others, the essay situates the artworks within broader discourses on identity, health, and power.