c. 2024
“Hair,” my most recent series, delves into the intricate connections between my hair and heritage, gender expression, and individuality. As a queer individual, the cutting of my hair severed ties with familial projections, societal expectations, and personal struggles, but were survived by phantom ties. For the installation, I incorporated weaving for the first time in my practice. Combining a craft that requires focus and patience, with the fast pace and instantaneity of digital photography highlighted the tension between the strenuous journey that the coming-of-age process is – a tedious detangling, acknowledgment of, and peace-making with the experiences that make one’s identity and the misleading immediateness of impressions born from a glance, a shot.