I’ve worked with photography in many ways over multiple decades. In this series, I converted a scanner into a high-resolution camera. The machine fails to understand my movements during long exposures, producing rainbow glitches that I see as both a metaphor for the anxiety many of us are feeling and a reminder of the rainbowed spaces we create that often exist outside the understanding of the machine- spaces like the People’s Beach-a queer beach in NYC. I photograph seaweed and Seaside Goldenrod, a plant that stabilizes the dunes and protects the beach from erosion. I also extend this process beyond the shoreline, photographing botanicals grown by queer femme and trans people of all genders as part of mutual efforts to cope and heal from cumulative stress. The imagery is fragmented and rainbowed to reflect the complexity of queer experience, our lives refracted, disrupted and lived beautifully in ways the “machine” cannot fully parse.
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