“In the Glow: Exploring Identity Through Cinema”

Copy paper with paint markers and pens, 2024

I Saw The TV Glow is a movie by transgender director Jane Schoenbrun exploring the queer connections we make with TV shows as we grow up, and the importance they have on our own identities. It uses these connections, and the ignoring of them, as an allegory for queerness and denial of identity. This piece is inspired by the final scene of that movie, which invokes cutting oneself open and finding the relief that there is something more to our existence. This is a collaboration with friend and fellow artist Astrin Hail where we took each other’s pictures, printed them out, and each drew on top of the picture of us that the other took. The regular copy paper and lines from the old printer allude to older forms of media where those lines were visible in digital media.