I am a queer, disabled, transmale artist who came from a low income family of 9, I was homeschooled for a lot of my life and was set up for failure since birth. I am a first-generation college student, and I was the only child out of seven who graduated high school (I’m a first-generation high school graduate). This is just a brief glimpse into my identity and who I am as a person, as bare-bones as I can possibly make it in 200 words. As you can imagine, I’ve struggled with understanding myself and have tried exploring it in my work, lending into the constant theme of identity and the different facets of my identity as well as the identities of people around me. I grew up in Montana, which isn’t always that friendly to black sheep. So I’ve had to play the part of the wolf, constantly fighting for people to recognize and understand me as I understand myself. Throughout the pieces I am submitting, I’ve explored intricate concepts of what it means to exist in a world that is built for breaking you down to fit a mold, I hope that as you view these works you are able to pick out the different pieces that’ve fallen off in the process of trying to break the mold cast around me.
Domminik Griffith
