GLITTERING

Glitter has always been queer infrastructure.

Long before it was a trend or an aesthetic, glitter was a statement - a refusal to be dull, to be small, to disappear into the background. It's been thrown at funerals and protests and Pride parades. It gets everywhere and it never fully goes away. That's not an accident. That's the whole point.

This series started with a simple idea: throw glitter at a problem and see what happens. Reflective particles, light, movement, the way sparkle creates energy in a frame. Technically it's an experiment in how light behaves when it has something to bounce off. Emotionally it's something else entirely.

There's a specific kind of joy that lives in unapologetic shine. The decision to take up space, to be visible, to refuse to tone it down for a room that wasn't built for you. I've spent a lot of my life in queer spaces where glitter wasn't decoration — it was declaration. These portraits are that feeling, made visual.

Joyful, electric, a little extra, completely intentional.

Some problems don't need solving. They need glitter.