Dazzling Gender Camouflage

The artwork consists of a rectangular canvas vertically split on a slightly tilted line. The left side of the canvas contains a rendition of the trans flag, slanted slightly upwards, while the right side of the canvas is a continuation of the trans flag, but with pink and blue swapped, as well as white swapped with a dark grey. Black handwritten-style text stating "certified normals and right-angle free" is overlaid on top of the stripes. In order to frustrate the preexisting right-angled corners of a rectangular canvas, the corner regions are chamfered.

Inspired by the counterintuitive stripes of dazzle camouflage, I created this artwork as a commentary on transness and gender presentation. The aesthetics of dazzle camouflage allowed me to simultaneously express the conflicting ideals of "passing", presenting as visibly queer, and deliberately ambiguity. In addition, I added in a pun on the mathematical definition of "normal" as applied to a vector: a vector constrained to point perpendicularly to a surface with only its length being variable, instead of having the freedom to point in whatever direction it wishes. Thus, this artwork rejects the constraints of normality by boldly centering transness (a rejection of the normalized confines of a gender assigned at birth) and by containing no right angles whatsoever.