I regard my own image as something held in stewardship, used with care to carry, translate, and honor identities beyond my own.
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Portraiture as reanimation
Where do you find inspiration?I am compelled by dignity under constraint
What would you do with $25,000?I would undertake a cross-cultural (rare, non-exploitative) field study examining identity as constructed, inherited, and embodied. Working in close, sustained proximity to people, place, and lived conditions, I would translate these into a series of self-authored portraits that function as tests of embodiment.
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