I photograph botanicals on queer land, including the People's Beach at Riis, a historically queer, trans, and BIPOC haven, along with other cruising sites and queer land projects. I also photograph plants 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.

I use a scanner I converted into a high res camera, queering the tradition of landscape photography focusing on the microcosm of flora. I see symbiotic systems of care existing in these ecologies as parallel to the mutual aid so critically important for queer communities to thrive.

All of the imagery is created during the capture, which unfolds over long durations, allowing skylight and detail to accumulate.

During the long exposure, I collage materials and manipulate light with my body. The machine fails to understand the choreography of my brightly painted fingernails, producing rainbow glitches that I see both as metaphor for the anxiety many of us are feeling and reminder of the rainbowed spaces we create that often exist outside the understanding of the patriarchal machine.