This body of work focuses on fostering and repairing personal relationships with the land, reflecting and reinforcing the repair done with my own relationship with my queer identity. Each image is printed via Xerox transfers onto 8x10" canvas boards, which result in imperfect prints. In these areas of damage and imperfection, I gild the image, drawing upon the concept of Kintsugi, or “golden joinery,” to emphasize the beauty of breakage and repair in the evolution of personal identity.
though the titian orange haze clings to my skin and fogs up my head, there is still the quiet lap of the water, the rich bog smell beneath the acrid sting of smoke, and you, your light step, your bright eyes; there is you, still.
I will choose what devours me
and even through everything, inexplicably, the grass has turned green on the hills, the blackbirds have returned to nest, and the daylight lingers on and on.
I dip my fingers into the mire and leave the peat bruised and seeping
