My multidisciplinary practice explores themes of intimacy, desire, and belonging in social and romantic relationships as a queer, trans man. I convey this through bleached cyanotypes that become almost invisible, curating an intimate space.
By repurposing the traditionally photographic printing process of cyanotype, I transform figurative drawings and paintings, muting colour and diminishing the visibility of the work alluding to an in-betweenness of real and imagined spaces and moments. It is through this that intimacy goes beyond the physical and becomes intuitive; something to be searched for. The aesthetic of the work has qualities of impermanence and fragility, ideating the potential loss of the physical image, the moment, or a loss pertaining to the current political polarisation of public queer existence.
The intentions for the meaning of the work are imbued in the creation of it. Often, the image has been lost or obscured to my dissatisfaction. Through obsessive repetition of the chemical process, I am compelled to reach a compromise with work that both allows me to convey transience and allows the work to produce its own textures and marks, absent of my influence. As such, each print possesses its own unique agency.
