The North American LCD

Screens serve as an alternative to mirrors for self-reflection—they present an alluring yet dissociative vision. A way of mediating how I, and other trans people, perceive our own bodies in the world. Crying with screens, loving through screens. Most days, screens are my primary way of interfacing with the world. I obsess to a degree that the screen becomes more real than my own body, a manifestation of gender dysphoria. By physically interacting with screens, I am absorbed in my own image. Can I escape the screen and truly exist in this land? I use LCDs to construct my own landscape and create a space for my body, as an act of resistance against colonial representations. I combine landscape and portraiture to create new perspectives on the way my identity is represented. To explore and to draw attention to the imposition of the frame as part of the colonial construction of landscape.