Return to Himself
- Title
- Return to Himself See all items with this value
- Non-binary, butch Asian lesbian See all items with this value
- Description
- Yes See all items with this value
- These images, from my project Queering Nature: The Landscape of Queer and Trans-Masculinity, mark my first explorations with the intersections of queerness, gender, and masculinity. A critical aspect of this work was to investigate portrayals of masculinity through the symbolism of nature—asking how non-normative identities can be visualized, insofar our queer futures become not just imagined, but seen, felt, and held. I look to the wilderness, a space to reclaim a westernized, American ‘Manifest Destiny’ of masculinity, and refuse its tropes that ask us to dominate or conquer, by living in symbiosis with the land. These images sparked my drive to create work that envisions queer utopias—resisting simplifications of gender and sexuality in order to cultivate expansive, liberatory landscapes. See all items with this value
- Anton lifts his shirt up in front of hay bales. See all items with this value
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- Creator
- Mattie Provost
- gender
- they/them
- handle
- mattieeprovosttt
- Date
- 2023
- Access Rights
- Yes
- Medium
- I understand
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This item was submitted on March 1, 2026 by [anonymous user] using the form “Curve Photo Contest 2026 Submission Form” on the site “Curve Archive”: https://curvemag.omeka.net/s/curve-archive
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