'Ser'

And from this moment on, I celebrate myself every day.

What is the price we pay to make ourselves visible? The previous works documented that process from within: the rigidity of someone living as if inside a box, the absence of someone moving through life on autopilot, the effort of someone trying to recognize themselves, the physical weight of someone beginning to feel but not yet knowing what to do with it, and the scars left by that process. This scene does not continue that process. It celebrates it.

The earlier versions are still there, but they no longer occupy the same space. They are no longer him. Yet they have not entirely disappeared either, because to say goodbye to them, I first had to acknowledge them. That is what I try to do with this work.

And then, there is me. The person who celebrates who he is today, and who he always wished to be. But more than that, the person who bids farewell to everything that brought him here.

Click on each image to see more details.