Julian: Decathexis — named for the psychic act of letting go — presents photographs that navigate survival, bodily transformation, and queer political identity. Drawing on the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub shooting, Winnicott's concept of the transitional object, and Mishima's tension between surface and depth, the work inhabits the fragile boundary between visible and invisible, private and public trauma. Gorgeous burns capture the durational fire of gender liberation — the moment of releasing the need to bind — while acknowledging how queer bodily signifiers have been commodified by brands and institutions alike. Each image holds an effigy and a threshold, the penetrating new emerging from the ashes of something old.
