“The Halo is a Symbol of Our Death” is a video artwork that delves into the intersections of technology, trans experience, and the juxtaposition of Christian iconography with queer liberation. The work centers around a deeply personal act: the injection of estrogen by the artist, a trans woman, capturing an intimate and transformative moment. The video unfolds through a dynamic interplay of two camera angles, seamlessly interwoven with animations generated by AI using the artist’s action art prompts for trans becoming.
Number 47: Mountain Fort
Text, Experimental Animation, Expanded
Cinema, AR
2024
Link to animation
A film about trans* becoming featuring the
inside of a trans woman screened on the outside of a trans woman.
Inaugural artwork included in Chelsea Tompto’s Transcode
Gallery
Link to transcode gallery
The hand drawn digital animation is
overlain upon cytoscopic
footage of my urethra and bladder, a procedure I went through due to medical side
effects from my transsexuality. Original score written and performed by me.