raquel

raquel and i met through being in the same circles of the social movement world: queer and student collectives, protests, manifestations, debates, online meetings and a sense of community through the confusing covid times...

we talked a lot about queerness and our own expressions of gender outside of a
binary system,
questioning the existing representations we see around us both in the media and in our daily lives...

in some of those conversations we mentioned how comfortable mythical creatures always felt to us because their universe lives so far away from our own that our constructed social rules and labels would never apply to them.

so, when i had the idea of starting these queer portraits, i wanted to start with raquel and make our conversations, and their fantasy, come true ~

so we got a sparkly magical dress,

woke up before sunrise,

drove through the mud to reach this corner of the forest

where we had water and sunrays

and transformed them into

a real life queertastic glittery fairy