A Way Through is an ongoing photographic project where I collaborate with queer community members who are bisexual, pansexual or fluid. I photograph traces of movement left by their hands while they hold objects of their choosing that are emblematic of their queer experience. These objects can serve as surrogates for experience, identity, and emotion. In this project, I wanted to provide individuals from my community an outlet for bi+ visibility without the pressure of public identification that comes from a traditional portrait. I consider how the human body might relate to inanimate objects through holding and touch to generate communal engagement and build community.

Through my photographic practice, I document performative moments of tactile engagement and exchange. I feel that photography has the potential to depict a moment in space and time and to create symbols of resistance. In this way, my work investigates art’s ability to upend the erasure of queer identities.