LMN DMN
video installation of Pt 1 at Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
High visibility is low securitywhen protection is coercionthis yellow is not for safety,safety is not for joy anywaythe brightness brought to the dish or scurvy kept at bay, at seaI worship at this altar so visible in the moonlight(star light reflected).All that glitters here is golden & a little bit scary,a little bit exciting.LMN_DMN (part 1) is a 3-channel auto-theoretical video meditating on lemons as socio-economic entity, as food, as concept, as acid, as zest, and as metaphor for lived transgender experience. It takes cues from essay films and horror tropes: a poem written in lemon juice is revealed by the flickering heat of a candle. Bright colors, logical fallacy, and luscious textures add a layer of camp and pleasure to this work that centers reading and imagination as the primary form of communicating. The project is ultimately intended as spell-work with a goal of exercising the demon of self doubt resulting from colonial narratives about binary gender.
Part one explores the stakes of standing out, touching on the value of lemons as a cure for scurvy, the visibility of lemons as an origin for the mafia, and introduces the faux-horror character, LMN DMN, who acts as a personification of internalized transphobia in later iterations.