We all, humans, transition from birth to life to death, from human to non-human, from male to female, from female to male, from cisgender to non-binary. Dysphoria eventually becomes euphoria, but how does the landscape transition in times of war and change? One could say that a transgender body experiencing dysphoria changes and mutates, while the landscape does the same in both physical and emotional ways.

As a transgender woman and a refugee from Ukraine, I’m trying to explore the ideas of healing and transition of the body-flower through digital representation as a life process. Going though my own journey of gender transition, this work holds a personal meaning. The project aims to show and imitate a transition of the body-flower digitally.

I am curious, how can one body-flower be recreated and reshaped digitally in multiples? Little seeds in the air are flying. The idea of cloning a body-flower is a provocative question. And can digital cloning become both fake and natural? Queer indigenous identities are lost, but can we recreate them through the digital realm now? In my view, seriality represents bodily symmetry. Digital symmetry is ‘perfect’, while human symmetry is ‘imperfect’.

How can we stage a queer and transitioning landscape in the realm of a digital drawings? In my view, visualising the mutation and bodily augmentation digitally can help us explore and discover new worlds and identities. Through pain and wounds comes new life and change.

What is the transitional space between dysphoria and euphoria?