texas isaiah
Artist Statement for Flowers at Your Feet
Texas Isaiah’s (b. Brooklyn, NY) new body of work, Flowers At Your Feet, offers a space for mourning, celebration, prayer, and remembrance. In this series of photographs, transmasculine, nonbinary, and gender-expansive sitters Dash (he/him), Bearboi (Bear) (they/them), and Lex (he/him) act as spirits who move across a lush landscape while suspended in a dream state, removed from the confines of binary systems and categorizations in a rare moment of rest. Here, Texas Isaiah asserts the significance of imagination in gender abolition, expands on the capacity of transmasculinity to support Black feminist practices, and explores rest as a place of connection to oneself and one’s ancestors.
https://www.blackstarfest.org/seen/read/issue003/image-as-offering-a-profile-of-texas-isaiah/
https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/image/story/2021-10-13/la-photographer-makes-mark-portraits-texas-isaiah
https://www.beingseenpodcast.com/trans-masculine-experience
https://www.artforum.com/print/201806/tiona-nekkia-mcclodden-on-texas-isaiah-75535
Texas Isaiah’s (b. Brooklyn, NY) new body of work, Flowers At Your Feet, offers a space for mourning, celebration, prayer, and remembrance. In this series of photographs, transmasculine, nonbinary, and gender-expansive sitters Dash (he/him), Bearboi (Bear) (they/them), and Lex (he/him) act as spirits who move across a lush landscape while suspended in a dream state, removed from the confines of binary systems and categorizations in a rare moment of rest. Here, Texas Isaiah asserts the significance of imagination in gender abolition, expands on the capacity of transmasculinity to support Black feminist practices, and explores rest as a place of connection to oneself and one’s ancestors.
https://www.blackstarfest.org/seen/read/issue003/image-as-offering-a-profile-of-texas-isaiah/
https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/image/story/2021-10-13/la-photographer-makes-mark-portraits-texas-isaiah
https://www.beingseenpodcast.com/trans-masculine-experience
https://www.artforum.com/print/201806/tiona-nekkia-mcclodden-on-texas-isaiah-75535