In her series titled Lost in My Life, Rachel Perry (Born 1962 in Tokyo) “pirates” her own bodies of work and redeploys them in the context of performative self-portraits. For Perry, these works pay homage to “the endless organizing, cleaning, and shopping that form the business of living.” Invested in a rigorous yet playful conceptualism across her practice, Perry uses what she calls the “detritus of everyday life” as both material and inspiration. Between 2014 and 2016, Perry embarked on a series of Chiral Drawings as an attempt to make a drawing using every single pen, pencil, crayon, colored pencil, and marker she owned. Chirality refers to the phenomenon of an image or object being different from its mirror image. Perry used her right and left hands respectively to attempt draw the same line, resulting in an imperfect mirror image. In Lost in My Life (Chiral Lines 3), Perry uses one of her Chiral Drawings as a backdrop for large-scale photographic self-portrait and obscures her face with another drawing on paper. Other works from the series feature self-portraits with key materials from previous projects, including receipts, twist ties, and tinfoil.