From the Artist:
My SURMISE series is an account of the many ways queer people are perceived and how visual representations of gender affect our psyches and society. The series features images of people who are gender fluid, gay people who look straight, and vice versa. Due to the shifting nature of the political climate and social status quo around gender identity, this visual and verbal lexicon around gender and sexual identity is in constant transformation. This series reminds us how misunderstandings and misrepresentations related to perceived gender, sexuality, and sexual orientation are often painful, soul destroying and in some countries, life threatening.