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  • "I belong nowhere, because I belong everywhere."38 days ago
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"If the world should break in two..." ... Made thi "If the world should break in two..." ... Made this one for a friend. #NIN #WereInThisTogether
Beside you in time... ... Made this one for a man Beside you in time... ... Made this one for a man I dearly miss. #NIN #BesideYouInTime #FrederickHart #ExNihilo sculpture as #painting #homage
Onward to the top of my #Sisyphean mountain... Onward to the top of my #Sisyphean mountain...
TONIGHT! I’m #THRILLED to be part of #NowhereFes TONIGHT! I’m #THRILLED to be part of #NowhereFest @urnowhere along with an amazing lineup of #artists, #innovators, and #thinkers speaking and sharing work all this weekend! I can honestly say this is truly the future of online gatherings. I haven’t felt this close to at an art party since the before time. I’ll be showing “Invisible Violence” followed by discussion with audience. Thank you to Jon Morris @picturejonmorris of @windmillfactory for inviting me! Get your tickets NOW and SEE YOU TONIGHT at 7p EST!  All proceeds go to Helping Hearts NYC Link in bio #VirtualEvents #Innovation in the time of #covid_19
Just like you imagined. Just like you imagined.
#Impromptu #LightPainting #Impromptu #LightPainting
TODAY @midheaven.network presents DARK NIGHT OF TH TODAY @midheaven.network presents DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, a livestream event @norwoodclub featuring an in-depth look at the history of RIPENING @ripening_nyc , my longtime collaboration with choreographer Vanessa Walters @planetnester and conversation hosted by Midheaven's Rebecca Irby - 4:30-6:30p! Livestreaming on Midheaven.Network
As I started to dig into my family's history, I di As I started to dig into my family's history, I discovered a whole history of Bracero workers, who very likely endured the gasoline baths along the border every 8 days in order to work on U.S. territory. Over 127,000 Mexicans were subjected to this "disinfecting" treatment in 1917 alone. Chemicals like Zyklon B were also used to delouse Mexican workers 25 year before WWII, and it is precisely this practice that "inspired" the Nazis to do the same against Jewish people in the Holocaust. Here you can see a couple stills from my @taxiplasm film "Invisible Violence", along with historical archives of the inspection and delousing process along the border, a deplorable practice that quietly continued for decades. "Invisible Violence" was proudly made this year under the tutelage of @bolivianbold & #QueerArtMentorship
While brainstorming "Invisible Violence", I realiz While brainstorming "Invisible Violence", I realized I could never really tell a story of Braceros with perfect historical accuracy, too much of history has been distorted to simply erased. So instead I wanted to make a dream of the Bracero crossing experience by experimenting with infrared cinematography. Shooting in IR on location along the Rio Grande, I hope that in these luminous moments, both the "promised land" as well as the pending nightmare, merge into one. In these images you will see how our camera was only seeing in IR, (without UV or visible light) to give a ghostly atmosphere.
When a Texas Black Vulture is spotted in the open When a Texas Black Vulture is spotted in the open plains that join Texas and Mexico, you know death is near, and it has many faces. Stills from "Invisible Violence"
When I began #QueerArtMentorship I did not anticip When I began #QueerArtMentorship I did not anticipate writing a film surrounding immigration issues, but as I dug more deeply into my own emotional reservoir, I was taken into my own history and family psychology, where a deep underbelly of unspoken generational traumas had been hiding. In this photo, my father is on the far left with his siblings in the border town of Piedras Negras. It only made sense to use it my new @taxiplasm film "Invisible Violence", because as my mentor @bolivianbold has said : the personal IS political.
Many people inquire, "what's with the masks?" The Many people inquire, "what's with the masks?" The inspiration comes from an extraordinary woman named Anna Coleman Ladd, who sculpted masks for men severely wounded in the first world war. In my upcoming feature film, "Those Who Didn't Run", a reclusive character survives a fire at the routine gasoline baths along the Mexican border, and takes it upon themselves to make masks for Mexicans who can't get medical attention for their disfiguring wounds. I, along with sculptor David Anthony Garcia @davidartistsa, took face casts of our Mexican "Bracero" workers casted in "Invisible Violence" and manually disfigured them ourselves. I also did a mold of myself! It is a strange and satisfying thing to mutilate one's own face.
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