2025

30”x14”x12”

Repurposed oak side table, radiant cut and beveled glass, mirror silvering, colored pencil, upholstery foam, batting, screen printed fabric (print based on fruits and flowers classified as “unfit” in Luther Burbank’s photographic archive), underglazed stoneware, quilted and embroidered found fabrics

This work touches on themes of protection, ghosts/ancestors, and the experience of mutual recognition between trans/gender variant and mad/neurodiverse people - or anyone who experiences living in a non-normative body. It's an altar to protect our ability/means to know who we are, and be surrounded in soft spaces to recognize our radiance, together.

The two-person hand held mirror sits on top a quilted fabric stitched together with silver embroidery that was created by tracing a collection of Luther Burbank's photographic records of fruits and flowers he deemed "unfit".

Photographs by Hadley Raysor Photography