Shadow Kin

Shadow Kin is an installation of chlorophyll prints delicately suspended from a branch depicting the shadow and feet of a gender queer, naturalized US citizen in an embodied relationship with the land known as Turtle Island or so-called United States. The photographic archive began in 2020 as a way to mark my presence during the Covid-19 pandemic and to root myself in resistance to anti-immigrant sentiment. The chlorophyll prints’ fragility and ephemerality are fixed through a copper sulfate bath and protective wax coating alluding to the fragility and endurance of the human body in confrontation with toxic nature of fascism. The foraged tree branch creates a tentative system of connection between the leaves; a reminder that without communal structures of support, we will fall.