Drag inspires happiness between the audience and the performer that doesn’t exist often enough. The interaction creates a reality reveling in a pervasive sense of community and celebration, charged with desire and glossed over with performance, that permeates the drag scene. My position as an image-maker is to present the individuals as humanized, not as a spectacle to be “exoticized.” I seek to make the queer voice the loudest. These images explore the private and public aspects between a drag queen and the spaces around drag to unfold the role of an audience member, a deconstruction of oppressive hetero-normative structures of gender, and an inner dialogue of expressive character.
