Queer Dimensionalities

2020

My working process for this project took place on walks around my neighborhood in rural western Kansas. During these walks I took pictures of the subjects that I encountered most, such as 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 cultural legibility as a queer person, paired with my curiosity about the limits and possibilities of figurative representation in photography, I wondered what it might look like if my shadow was digitally obscured in the images. The experimental use of two tools in Photoshop – the magic wand tool and content aware fill – were employed as a way to articulate vantage points that are difficult to depict through normative cultural frames.

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Queer Dimensionalities
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Queer Dimensionalities, 1(a),
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