“screaming loud through silent lips I”
“screaming loud through silent lips” -- is a photo series created in January of 2021 in collaboration with Jodye Moon. In April/May of 2021 several of the series images were featured at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL in BOUNDARIES an exhibition juried by Whitney LaMora.
1/3/2021
i don’t believe i ever understood gender in the binary form.
as a child i watched and i learned.
i became a “performer” in multiple senses of the word.
and i was a good fool.
and i was a lost player.
a lonely misfit
and weary vagabond
on a stage both
too big
and much, much too small.
gender is theatrical.
but not just in the sense that it is presented and performed.
but in that it is both ephemeral and expansive.
and even more.
i’ve grown now,
through the figure you see here
to not only be a
misfit
vagabond
strutting and fretting
but,
an impresario
of sorts.
of my own.
because after all,
gender is
“a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing”.
cheers
to all my fellow walking shadows.
- MANIC