"Throughout the series, I reflect on the patriarchal structures I was raised within to explore my relationship with masculinity. I use personal artifacts such as hair, hunting trophies, testosterone, and family photographs to trace my relationships and history. In making each portrait, I undergo transformations to question how I dismantle, uphold, or complicate the patriarchal ideologies embedded within American culture."
"Using self-camouflaging techniques borrowed from military and hunting culture, I investigate the visibility of my identity as a transmasculine person, exploring the constraints of assimilation and imagining new possibilities for masculinity. Rather than deploy camouflage as a tool to disappear into an environment, I use it to become hypervisible, confronting the viewer with the expectations and limitations placed on gender presentation."
The series examines patriarchal lineage through photography, performance, and installation to investigate how masculinities are formed and performed. Personal artifacts such as hair, hunting trophies, testosterone, and family photographs are used to trace relationships and history. Portraits involve embodied transformations that question how patriarchal ideologies are dismantled, upheld, or complicated. Self-camouflaging techniques borrowed from military and hunting culture are repurposed to probe visibility and hypervisibility of transmasculine identity. The work explores the tensions between assimilation and resistance while imagining alternative possibilities for gender presentation within the American landscape.
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