Queer Dimensionalities

2020

In 2019 I moved from urban New Mexico to a small town in western Kansas for a teaching position. During the years I lived in the Midwest, I went on walks around my neighborhood to pass the time. On these walks I took pictures of the subjects that I encountered most; including grass, flowers, water, sidewalks, stones, and my shadow. I was fascinated by how my shadow related to my surroundings while not being an integral part of them. Given my interest in my own cultural legibility/illegibility as a queer person in that context, I wondered what it might look like if my shadow was digitally obscured in the images. The experimental and repeated use of two tools in Photoshop – the Magic Wand tool and Content-aware Fill – were employed as a way to articulate a new kind of portrait; one that visualizes fluctuating dimensions in the form of abstract texture, collapsed space, and ethereal atmosphere instead of through corporeal representation.

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