Collected Item: “This is what a non identifying Gay looks like”
What is your name?
Elias Scott
Use the following phrase for your photograph's title, filling in the blank with however you self-identify. Feel free to include all intersections of your identity. (Examples: lesbian, trans person of color, Latinx queer woman, radical faery, butch, etc.): "This is what a _______ looks like."
non identifying Gay
Tell us more about your photo by sharing a brief artist statement or answering this prompt: "This is what being ______ means to me..."
*gay
Gay is a lifestyle. Of Freedom. And Objectification. Gay is an unfolding of desire and identity found and imposed. Gay is unframed and reframed.
As is a life, any life, or landscape.
A landscape unto itself in its whole.
Given, offering, stolen; personal.
Gay is a lifestyle. Of Freedom. And Objectification. Gay is an unfolding of desire and identity found and imposed. Gay is unframed and reframed.
As is a life, any life, or landscape.
A landscape unto itself in its whole.
Given, offering, stolen; personal.
Describe your photo so we can provide alt-text for future visitors to this website.
This photo is black and white. It is is a 12 frame grid, 3 across, and 4 down, unedited screenshot of multiple rapid images taken by the artist. The subjects face and torsos is shown bare, unclothed or covered, reflected in a mirror in close proximity to a curtain partially covering a shower line hose and head. The subjects expression, gaze and head angle change in each not drastically. The imagery is reflective of a traditional photographers contact sheet where in the past the chosen photos would be perhaps circled, 3 photos have a highlighted heart to reflect its digital origins. The subject has a prominent tattoo on their chest. The age and sex are not specifically identified in modern terms; much is left to and intended to be assumed by the viewer, reflective of the artists life experience of Identity. We are what We see.
Do you consent to The Curve Foundation storing, sharing, and using this image and its description as we deem appropriate, including disseminating on our social media, website, and Curve quarterly? Do you confirm that you are the photographer of this image?
Yes
In the event that you win this contest, how can we best contact you: Instagram, email, or other? If other, please provide contact details.
eliasscottcole@gmail.com