This birthed a long-term performance alongside my medically transitioning. Anthro would be the testing ground for the behaviors I couldn’t accept as Constantine.
“We are bodies with interests not fixed identities”. I loved this phrase that I found in your social media profile. Could you expand it for us a little bit more?
The trans experience forces you to deconstruct society heavily. As a child being denied your natural feminine behaviours with violence, you become the best social observer just so you can perform like the normal kids to avoid bullying. We are denied our nature because of internalised hierarchy structures ingrained in our understanding of reality. And we were taught to enforce these shackles on each other as kids.
A body with interests calls for a sense of primal awareness presence. We don’t need to see our bodies through narratives and structures or identities. We are the latest mutations of what it means to be organic life on earth. It is our birthright to redefine what that means for us.
What is a piece of advice you’d like to say to your past self?
You never believed you would reach the level of self-love and comfort you have now yet you did. Your tears will become my fertiliser. You used to tell yourself, that time passes one atom spin at a time. You cannot avoid it. Time passed as you said. Your pain gives birth to worlds that unlock people’s hearts angel child. You should have never let them make you see yourself as a demon. Their eyes were tainted.
What are your future projects?
With the completion of my medical transition, the need to perform my art through my body has left me. I would like to conclude the world of Anthromorph in a published illustrated book. In this space of freedom I once used to survive, I want to give back to the people that made it possible for me to exist. I want to world build and let people explore this universe in film, book, and video game worlds. In addition filmmaker, Angeliki Aristomenopoulou is currently making a feature-length cinematic documentary film on my life, art, and trans- self-evolution. Participated in Berlinale talents 2022, a European co-production of Greece and Iceland. We can hopefully show something next year.