Breath of the mountain,
flesh of the river
This project is a quiet hymn to queer love — a love that learned to bloom in darkness and now steps into the light without trembling.
In this series, my partner and I return our bodies to the forest not as subjects, but as offerings. We set down the weight of other people’s narratives and stand as we are — soft, unarmoured, honest.
Here, love is an exhale. A slow surrender. The mountain holds our stillness, the river carries our histories, and the earth hums beneath us like an ancestor finally recognising her children. Light traces our skin as if reading a story we once tried to erase.
This work is about vulnerability without apology — two men mirrored in moss, water, and silence. Queer love as prayer. The body as home.
Allegory of the self
This is a visual study of identity as something sacred, fractured, and continually evolving. Drawing from surrealism, queer embodiment, and spiritual iconography, the series examines the many selves we carry — the ones formed through desire, fear, intimacy, and childhood trauma.
Masks, ruptures, and amplified symbols like oversized butterflies or a black balloon become extensions of my inner landscape, where beauty often arrives with suffocation and growth emerges from the darkest places. These images explore how pain can elevate, how love can overwhelm, and how the self constantly sheds and reforms in response to experience.
At its heart, this project is about becoming — facing the parts of myself that confuse, contradict, or hurt, and transforming them into something conscious and whole. “Allegory of the Self” is my personal mythology: a record of rupture, resilience, and the quiet, ongoing work of finding who I am beneath all the masks.
ELECTRIC CHAPEL
A manifesto of sexual and spiritual liberation — a visual altar for queerness, presence, and visibility. It celebrates the transcendental truth that we exist at the intersection of past and present, alpha and omega, doctrine and reality. Growing up in Romania, where queer identity was treated as sin, I witnessed a world that sought to erase us, punish us, and deny our right to love openly. This series refuses that erasure.
Drawing on Romanian Orthodox iconography, the project reclaims religious symbolism and transforms it into a celebration of queer bodies, chosen families, and radical self-expression. The images sanctify Birmingham queer artists, turning spaces of shame into spaces of power, ritual, and reverence. Here, the Church no longer dictates worth; the community, the body, and creativity become sacred.
At its core, this is about defiance, joy, and reclamation. It asserts that we will no longer hide, apologize, or shrink. We sit, visible and honored, at the intersection of history and identity, turning tools of oppression into instruments of celebration. This is queer spirituality, made corporeal, electric, and alive.
