Flag

Flag uses the American flag as a material that acts on the body it touches: backdrop, blindfold, binding, shroud. It should act on the viewer.

My other work photographs consensual power exchange inside my community: rope, mummification, kink that two people agree to. Flag turns that same language toward power no one agreed to. The flag becomes the membrane between a person and empire, and each image holds the moment it tightens — distance, denied intimacy, erasure.

The definitive prints are made in platinum and palladium, a process older than anyone alive participating in the oppression of trans people today. With proper processing the archival qualities of platinum and palladium will allow these images to endure well over 1000 years. I chose the medium so these images outlast not only the moment they document but anything I can foresee.

All images in the series are shot on 120 film.

These are pictures about what a country, an empire does to the people it claims as its own.

Series in progress — images are revealed as prints are editioned.

Color portrait of a tattooed masked figure posed against an American flag with a rifle

Flag I, 2026

Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm, 40 × 40 in, framed to 48 × 48 in, edition of 5 + 1 AP

Platinum/palladium print, black and white, 17 × 17 in, framed to 24 × 24 in, edition of 5 + 1 AP

Each edition signed and numbered, with Certificate of Authenticity

A masked figure stands inside the flag rather than before it — claimed and contained in the same gesture.

Color portrait of a heavily tattooed masked figure with arms outstretched against an American flag

Flag II, 2026

Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm, 40 × 40 in, framed to 48 × 48 in, edition of 5 + 1 AP

Platinum/palladium print, black and white, 17 × 17 in, framed to 24 × 24 in, edition of 5 + 1 AP

Each edition signed and numbered, with Certificate of Authenticity

The same figure, armed: surveilled and refusing to be seen, suspect and citizen at once.

Black and white photograph of two nude tattooed figures kissing, their heads wrapped in American flags that drape down their backs, in front of a weathered white shed amid summer foliage

Flag III, 2026

Platinum/palladium print, 17 × 21.25 in, framed to 24 × 28.25 in, edition of 5 + 1 AP

Signed and numbered, with Certificate of Authenticity

Two figures kiss with their heads wrapped in the flag — the nation pressed between them, so contact is permitted only as separation. After Magritte’s Les Amants.