Beyond Flesh
CHAPTER 1: DISCOVERY
A new world to explore, life surrounding me.
As a physical manifestation of something often unseen, I rebuke perception and accept truth.
One with the trees, tall above observation, but rooted in power and beauty.
CHAPTER 1 (ON FILM):
CHAPTER 2: JUDGEMENT
Stumbled across somewhere I shouldn’t have.
They’re watching me, staring deeply.
Disgusted eyes behind shields of light.
Dancing for them, like some sort of animal.
There’s nowhere to hide.
A deer in headlights, awaiting its fate.
CHAPTER 2 (ON FILM):
CHAPTER 3: REBIRTH
Reject performance, reject this show I’ve directed.
They see right through it anyways, see me as who I’ve always been.
Tearing myself apart, I feel the masks release from my skin.
I finally allow myself to slip into the earth, eventually becoming one with the abundance of life
CHAPTER 3 (ON FILM):
Gender is too richly complex to be fully understood, and we should never be faulting those with ignorance to the topic. It is beyond politics, it is beyond acceptance, it’s even beyond love, but rather can be represented as a divine concept. Something that can’t be understood because it both exists and doesn’t exist. It is not present in front of us, yet we choose to force it down into digestible language and visualizations and then use those for violence. It merely exists as a set of loose rules crafted from years of misogyny and focus on biological difference. This shoot is aiming to capture the alienation of someone with this viewpoint, treating gender as a whole and their own gender, as divine. This is not just about being non-binary, but about what happens after you break down the gender binary. When you realize it’s all superficial, where do your thoughts go next? They drive towards the idea that anatomy and gender do not intertwine. Anatomy is worldly, while gender is not; it’s something we embody as a spirit.
CREATIVE DIRECTION: SAGE AUCREMANN-MORATALLA
PHOTOGRAPHY: ROEN MEDINA, STEFANIE URBAN
FILM PHOTOGRAPHY: SAGE AUCREMANN-MORATALLA
EDITING: SAGE AUCREMANN-MORATALLA
MODELING: CARLY COLLINS
STYLING: SAGE AUCREMANN-MORATALLA, CARLY COLLINS
BEAUTY: OLIVIA CÁCERES
SHOOT ASSISTANCE: EL BEY