She often compares the sacrifice and story of Jesus to the experience of trans femininity. She was cast out of her community, just as Jesus was cast out of his. Equally, Jesus's death can be seen as an invagination, because of the piercing through the skin (also found in JESUS'S CHA CHA HEELS, 1986).

The figure incarnates Candy, another trans woman. However, the dolls appears to be much older than Candy would have ever been, dying at the age of 30 like many other trans women at the time. Thus, the doll is also a comment on the fact that "the future" for trans women is a commodity.

All throughout the installation, we can see her complicated relationship to her body. The figure on the right, lying in bed, is named "More Morphine" details her struggles with heroine and anorexia. Dismembered body are strewn throughout the recreation of Lankton's Chicago appartment, highlighting her experience with gender dysphoria as well as anorexia.

This piece (or collection) is ment to make the viewer feel uncomfortable, as she was. It is all about going against societal norms: being transgender, drug addiction, being queer, not wanting to go to rehab for her anorexia. She says she has "been Anorexic since 19 and plan[s] to continue and you know what [she says] FUCK Recovery, FUCK PSYCHIATRY Fuck it all because [she's] over it"

Her dolls made of wire and paper mache are fluid and dynamic. Their wire structure allows them to be posed at will, making the pieces versatile and, sometimes, relatable.

Lankton's photography is often overlooked, shadowed by her more immersive installations. However, her photography is deeply intimate. She captures the dolls often in vulnerable positions/situations (such as lying naked) and from up close. She thus makes the dolls seem sympathetic and forces their emotions onto the audience, despite them being highly uncanney.

The exhibit holds deeper meaning than just the art though, as it displays photos of many of her works lost to the public after the AIDS epidemic. It represents how the epidemic not only ravaged the queer communitie's members on a personal level (killing approximately 700 000 people in the US alone), but also had devastating impacts on the communitie's culture and art scene.

In some of her photography, she seems to be inspired by surrealism. She will divide the body of birthed children, or contort the dolls and add different light filters on them.