in her own arms

blender, enscape, photoshop collaboration with Eric Duplessis 2022

This is a multi-media image of a drag queen watching old and inauthentic identities die as she embraces her own queerness and place in the drag community. The image is a modern play on the painting Death of Leonardo da Vinci in arms of Francis I by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The dress references that of Pepper LaBeija from the film Paris is Burning.

Examples of Rhino modelled objects

Almost every part of the image has been created through rendering and modelling software.The people in the image are 3D scans of myself, which were then manipulated to be placed in these positions. Myself, as well as the dress, and all the fabric was modelled in Blender, while all the furniture and the room were modelled in Rhino. The texturing and rendering were split between Blender, Enscape, and Photoshop.

separate 3D scans armature