Current Works: An Exploration of Non-Binary and Queer Identity, Grief, and the Aztec Deity Xochipilli

Body as Canvas: The Intersection of Narrative and Form

These photographs come from the same world as the novel Our Lord of the Flowers. I am the subject in all of them.

The work is about grief. It is also about gender, which in this world is never fixed. As an artist, I use my own queer body to interrogate the architecture of grief and the deeper dimensions of gender experience.

Each image is also a study of Aztec myth, which permeates the novel and the photographic studies and is governed by the deity Xochipilli, often cited as a god of queerness, psychedelics, music and flowers.

This curated collection represents the latest evolution of the Our Lord of the Flowers universe by Cesar Torres. Bridging the gap between contemporary photography and narrative fiction, these works explore the intersection of the physical body and emotional transition. This body of work is available for exhibition and limited edition archival printing.