A series exploring patriarchal lineage by multidisciplinary artist Briar Pine. Currently based in Alfred, New York, Pine’s work spans photography, performance, and installation to examine identity in the American landscape. Their series, “Camouflaged,” considers how masculinities are formed and performed. Through this lens, the series asks how transmasculine identities navigate the pressure to either assimilate into dominant cultural structures or resist them entirely.

“Throughout the series, I reflect on the patriarchal structures I was raised within to explore my relationship with masculinity. I use personal artifacts such as hair, hunting trophies, testosterone, and family photographs to trace my relationships and history. In making each portrait, I undergo transformations to question how I dismantle, uphold, or complicate the patriarchal ideologies embedded within American culture. Using self-camouflaging techniques borrowed from military and hunting culture, I investigate the visibility of my identity as a transmasculine person, exploring the constraints of assimilation and imagining new possibilities for masculinity. Rather than deploy camouflage as a tool to disappear into an environment, I use it to become hypervisible, confronting the viewer with the expectations and limitations placed on gender presentation.”