Excerpted from the 6-year project, Stealing Masculinity (2004-2009)
Original artwork (1 of 1) Spilt tone, Hand-painted Silver Halide prints on 100% archival cotton rag paper, 24″x30″ each
Artist Statement
Most animals, like humans, have separate sexes — they are born, live out their lives and reproduce as one sex or the other. However, some animals live as one sex in part of their lifetime and then switch to the other sex… What remains a puzzle, according to Yale scientists, is why the phenomenon is so rare, since their analysis shows the biological “costs” of changing sexes rarely outweigh the advantages… Read More