I'll See You in the Morning

The hierarchy of the gaze and how it shapes our understanding of power, tenderness, and visibility—particularly through the lens of gender.

Ever since I was a young girl, I felt envious of the opposite sex and exhausted by the policing of my body—what I was allowed to show, what had to be hidden, what behavior was acceptable, and who got to decide. I have been photographing myself and my partner on and off throughout our decade long relationship. Seeing how he and I have changed as we have aged. The growth in our lives through the years. I could never fully express or understand what it meant to feel both female and male, and how it informs my way of seeing. I felt a sense of control over my own body, and found a connection to intimacy through the taking of a photograph.

I’m interested in the hierarchy of the gaze and how it has shaped our understanding of power, tenderness, and visibility—particularly through the lens of gender. As someone who identifies as bi-gender and has only recently embraced my queer identity, I explore how the act of looking and being looked at can be influenced by social expectations around gender roles. The framework of I’ll See You in the Morning lies in the disruption of conventional binaries and challenges narratives by positioning intimacy and identity at the center of the visual experience. By photographing myself and my partner, I question who holds the power in the image, how that power shifts, and what it means to assert agency over one’s own body and representation.