MENdroid is a mixed media artwork that visualizes the moment a “face” in the form of a Noh mask acquires a human body, gains life, and begins to act as a subject with agency. However, the “MENdroid” depicted here is not a mechanical robot with a physical body. The title “MENdroid” merges the Japanese word men (面: mask/face) with men (人間: human) and face (顔), layered further with the suffix -droid from “android” (meaning “-oid: something resembling” in Greek). It thus implies a “being that resembles a human face” and further suggests “a being whose face leads, and the body follows.” In Noh, performers conceal their own identities and, through expressionless masks, manifest characters or spiritual beings on stage. By surrendering their egos and training their voices and bodies in the aesthetic forms of Noh, they enable life to be channeled through the mask. What makes this possible is the craft and awareness honed over years of rigorous discipline. However, in this work MENdroid, that relationship is inverted. Here, the body of the mask-wearer—who has not undergone such training—is overtaken by the mask. The “face” takes a position above the “self,” eventually erasing bodily agency. Unwilled and unconscious, the body becomes a vessel ruled by the face. This work examines the disjunction between face, body, and self, raising the fundamental question: “What does it mean to be human?” “What is it that makes us ‘ourselves’?” Once the face begins to “act” in place of the self, the person is no longer who they once were. The subject is quietly replaced—without violence, and without resistance.