Deeman’s new series of self-portraits conjure a distinct sense of movement and the innate fluidity of identity. Neutral Density filters traditionally used in photographic studio lighting, varying in texture and opacity, float over each portrait, obfuscating the image below. The ethereal, flowing effects, and points of emergence speak to the artist’s queer, transnational, and Black diasporic becoming a British-Jamaican and the liminal and transitory states of Black selfhood. A hand-cut window in the film of each is a place of emergence, a point of observance. These intentional shapes serve as symbolic references to boundaries and collective reclamation.