Lecodibra

Lecodibra is part of the Spectrales series, the birth of a mer and the ancestors welcoming them. My connection to ancestors is an evolving journey. I lost that connection when it was imposed on me as a rigid expectation, a mask of normative visions that further marginalized me. In response, I created these ancestors of the depths who resonate with the most intimate, linear aspects of my being. My artistic process involves excavating digital layers to uncover beings with whom I can connect, beings brought forth by black queer emotions across time. These beings emerge from traumas, resistances, joys, colonizations, slaveries, adoptions, and explorations—black beings traversing streams, seas, glaciers, droplets, and lakes, from abyssal oceans to the atomic cells of our bodies. Sexuality as a site of shapeshifting led me to the ocean, and the creation process became the method that made the most sense in honoring those ancestors. Lecodibra shows one of these souls in their natural