uring the years following the 2016 presidential election, I initiated portrait collaborations between those who – through the race, sexuality, gender identity, age, ethnicity, and/or disability – felt they had been deemed invisible and unentitled to their place in this American moment. I asked my sitters to turn themselves "inside out" and to use pose, gesture, and gaze to express their emotional truths project. Longignored cracks ruptured as racial and economic injustices were brought to the forefront of collective consciousness and our democracy teetered on edge.
