Briar Pine

Camouflaged explores my patriarchal lineage to investigate how masculinities are formed and performed. Throughout the photographs, I use personal artifacts such as hair, hunting trophies, testosterone, and family photographs to trace my relationships and history. In making each portrait, I undergo transformations to question how I dismantle, uphold, or complicate the white masculine ideologies often idealized and mythologized within rural American culture. Through this process, I investigate the visibility of my identity as a transmasculine person, exploring the constraints of assimilation and imagining new possibilities for masculinity. Rather than using camouflage as a tool to disappear into an environment, I use it to become hypervisible, confronting the viewer with the expectations and limitations placed on gender presentation.

Website https://briarmpine.com/

Collaborating Artist Briar Pine