Living Community Archive
A Relational Documentation Project
In partnership with a local queer arts space, I’m currently serving as an embedded community photographer and archivist documenting gatherings, performances, workshops, and informal moments of connection. This project is part artistic practice, part living archive. As an arts archivist, I’m intentionally pushing myself to work across mediums and modes of storytelling. I’m experimenting with composition, editing styles, sequencing, and narrative so that I can better capture the textures of queer life, art and intimacies in community. I am seeing this project as a means to remain intentionally engaged in learning, joy, tenderness, and survival in the fragile and transformative time we’re currently in. Each event is approached as its own relational ecosystem and I shoot based on what that requires. Images are edited intuitively and with care, allowing mood, movement, and relationship to shape the visual language. Over the duration of this project you can visit my blog to see poems, visual collage, photos and more multi-medium art related to this project. Access to full event galleries is coordinated directly through the space. If you’d like access to images from a specific event, please email Rocky at koneksigallery@gmail.com.
At Koneksi Co-Creative Gallery, where objects circulate and stories gather, founder Rocky is pictured above in the marketplace. They are gently out of focus and orbiting the community center according to what each role calls forth in the moment. Koneksi space holds workshops, gallery exhibitions, sells baked goods, offers a community food share, and has clothing for sale. Here, blur becomes part of the story as locals move in the space by feeling rather than form; as everyone co-creates moments that heal, reveal, and offer connection through creativity, play and community care.
