"Hidden Glances" reframes vintage gay pornographic calendars into layered analog collages where absence is as charged as presence. By splicing and re-photographing figures and scenes both originating from the same calendar published before coming out, I create negative spaces that echo the covert ways I learned to see as a closeted youth. This manipulation collapses time in the past and turns images once meant for consumption into a meditation on identity, concealment, and visibility. Disrupting the calendars’ original narratives, the series suggests how queer histories and truths are pieced together from fragments and omissions, inviting viewers to consider the shifting negotiations of desire, shame, and self-preservation.
