A multi-media installation piece that consists of a dollhouse set, a stop motion puppet, and a projection of 2D and stop motion animation.
Statement:
Fish Tank is a representation of new beginnings, lost time, and hope for the future. This autobiographical piece explores a beginning of a transition as well as a farewell and tribute to many years of sitting and waiting. Recently I have begun my gender transition journey, which has been a decision years in the making. I have identified as non-binary and transgender since high school but have not had the self-sufficiency, financial resources, and community support to physically transition until now. Because this step has taken years to reach, I look back on the years of being too afraid to take it in mourning, as if I had lost all that time becoming who and what I want to be.
Fish Tank is a celebration of making this change, but also a eulogy to my past self who could only dream of it. Fish Tank is a multi-media exhibition piece that consists of a dollhouse “stop motion” set, a stop motion puppet, and a projection of 2D and stop motion animation. The projection inside the set is a representation of my transition journey the way I have pictured it for years: finding the courage to make the first step and work through self-identification, self-presentation, and the building of community.
