Visual Art

Here Forever: A Trans and Non-Binary Flag Raising Ceremony (2025)

A series of 13 handmade flags celebrating and expressing the magic of trans people’s existence based on interviews with Twin Cities based trans and non-binary people ages 15-90. Each flag was accompanied by a story. A book is forthcoming. The event culminated in sharing a handmade 25x42 foot trans flag that says HERE FOREVER made by A.P. Looze and Heather MacKenzie. Photos from the ceremony and select up close photos of flags below.

We Will Not Be Eradicated (2023)

custom Pride Flag for the Minnesota Textile Center

We Will Not Be Eradicated is a reimagined Pride Flag. I began with the rainbow—slanted and angled because the queer movement has never been straight forward. It extends beyond the bounds of the flag suggesting our thriving future. There is a clear strip of vinyl in the middle of the rainbow to be able to see through the flag and into the natural world—to remind us that queerness is an act of inter-relatedness with all beings and energies. I wanted to honor contemporary queer history so I placed two pink triangles in the corners of the rainbows. They represent our ancestors who were lost to the AIDS epidemic and queer people lost in the concentration camps of WWII. They are cornerstones—the people who fought so hard against eradication, keeping the rainbow and our lineage from collapsing. The brown and black fabric is woven togther, representing the unwavering strength of the QTBIPOC communities. These communities have been the literal foundation and bedrock of queerness: leaders of movements and rebellion, of queer fashion and culture and gender. The pieces are woven to represent these communities’ resistance to violent colonial perceptions and definitions of gender and sexuality. The trans and non-binary colors in the corners extend beyond the boundaries of the flag. They are circles to represent expansion, emergences, pushing boundaries, creating new definitions, thinking more infinitely. They are the avante garde, expanding our consciousness of gender and sexuality, and fruther, how we perceive reality.

Water Prayers (2020-2022)

During the George Floyd Uprising in Minneapolis, Powderhorn neighborhood residents (where I reside) came together to rise up against police violence and protect ourselves amidst the chaos. Everyone was instructed to keep water buckets full and at hand in case of fire emergencies. In the aftermath of the uprisings, these buckets remained throughout the neighborhood, out of fear that the fires would still burn. I went out and visited people's water buckets in my neighborhood and marbled paper on the surface using a technique called suminigashi. I then took the marbled images, enlarged them, and burned them into plywood (a ubiquitous supply, as it was used to protect businesses' windows) using pyrography techniques. To me these are alchemic prayers, honoring the grief, anger, fear, anguish and powerful love that were so unbelievably potent during such a world-changing event. Select woodburnings were publicly displayed at Central Luthern Church in downtown Minneapolis, spring 2025.

36” x24”

34”x46”

Trombone Legs (2020)

In the early days of the pandemic, I leaned on my photography practice to find joy and purpose. A friend purchased a poster for me from a thrift store (right) and I decided to remake the poster in as many ways as possible, creating snapshots of various leg personas using objects and clothing in my house.