Riis Beach is a queer, trans and BIPOC haven in NYC that is under threat from both climate change and development. I document Riis Beach through an experimental photography process, queering traditional landscape photography–examining instead the essential microcosm of coastal flora using a scanner I’ve converted into a high res camera. I use long exposures, capturing the choreography of my brightly painted fingernails. The machine fails to understand my movements, creating rainbow glitches which I see as both a metaphor for queer anxiety and a reminder of the resilient, rainbowed spaces we create—spaces like Riis Beach which lay outside the understanding of the capitalist machine. Pictured: seaweed, seaside goldenrod, wig hair and false eyelashes collected from Riis and algae plastics made from seaweed and make up.
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