LIMINAL SPACE, 2017~ONGOING
I use tender gaze to explore the beauty and intimacy of queer and trans people of color lives. Joy and resilience exist in everyday life. In quiet moments, we keep becoming.
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EXHIBITIONS
- Be Spoken Love, ZAZ10ts, Times Square (41st street & 7 ave), New York, 2021
- Chosen, TRNK x Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, 2021
- Photoville, NYC, 2019