Siggi Bengston

Oregon Ash, 2018, photograph, 16 x 24 inches 

Have you ever been called a pansy? Do bears only live in the wilderness? Why are all the queers living in the forest? Discomfort manifests in many different ways; through the body, through disrupted ecologies, through dissonance, through dysphoria. In my work, I look to the environment to provide visual metaphors of discomfort to recontextualize instances of environmental degradation into gender or queer dysphoria. I prefer to work with color analog photography, gravitating towards 35 and 120mm. Language informs the subject matter I chose to photograph and discover intersections between queer and ecological jargon often acts as a catalyst. 

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