MARGET
LONG
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The Medium is the Mirage
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Inferior) Mirages
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Superior) Mirages
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Interior) Mirages
Mirage Viewing Station
You Were Drifting
Crocker Land
The Country Turning Upside Down
Rancho Mirage
Yo
Mirage!
Mathew Brady’s Skylight
Mathew
Brady’s Skylight
Rearranging Canon Balls
Blanks I
Blanks I
I
Visiting Cards
Everyone I Owe
Artist Books
Flash
+ Cube (1965-1975)
When I Was a Mirage
Removing James Franco
Hunting Blinds
Nature
Valley
Film + Video
When I Was a Mirage, forthcoming, 2026
Artist’s Book
160 pages, hand-printed edition of 50
Forthcoming, Spring 2026
When I Was a Mirage
is a meditation on mirages and the elusive nature of the photographic image. Part image theory and part memoir, this book draws on mirages to think through the shifting terrains of trans embodiment, fugitivity, and visual culture. Taking a cue from 19th-century photographer Félix Nadar’s
When I Was a Photographer
, it moves between essays, fragments, and image theory, refusing capture or closure. A trans poetics of distortion and dislocation,
When I Was a Mirage
is not a story of arrival. It’s a record of vanishing points, soft refusals, and the queer poetics of the almost-seen.
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