in her own arms
Collaboration with Eric Duplessis
Academic work - University of Waterloo
Kitchener, Ontario
2023
This is a multi-media image of a drag queen watching old and inauthentic identities die as she embraces her own queerness and place in the drag community. The image is a modern play on the painting Death of Leonardo da Vinci in arms of Francis I by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The dress references that of Pepper LaBeija from the film Paris is Burning. Almost every part of the image has been created through rendering and modeling software. The people in the image are 3D scans of myself, which were then manipulated to be placed in these positions. Myself, as well as the dress, and all the fabric was modeled in Blender, while all the furniture and the room were modeled in Rhino. The texturing and rendering were split between Blender, Enscape, and Photoshop.