What originated from a personal need to reconcile the trauma of medical and psychiatric treatment, pathologies became a body of work that illustrates obstructed healing, pain, and the galvanization that can happen from surviving treatment.

Psychiatric and medical treatment for queer and trans+ people often comes with the side effects of pathologization of identity, erasure and/or glorified conversion therapy, and impeded transformation.

What is deemed “sickness” is projected onto all facets of ones’ personhood and analyzed – they become much like a specimen, splayed and observed. 

Butterflies, being a symbol for transformation, emulate “healing” through hardship, collective resilience, and the kaleidoscopic effect of metamorphosis.