Hi, I’m Kirby, the artist behind this practice. Personal Project began as a quiet longing—a desire to know myself, to believe I was worthy of living a story that belonged to me. Not one inherited or prescribed, but one born from within. It is a gentle rebellion against the narratives that cling to us, passed down in silence, etched into our bodies before we learn to speak.

This work is a remembering. A return. A celebration of what is most honest in us.

Each portrait is an invitation: come as you are, in all your truth. Be held. Be witnessed. Be loved, not despite who you are, but because of it. The camera, the film, the image—they are just portals. The alchemy happens in the moment of being seen.

As a Queer and non-binary artist, my lens rests most often on Queer, Trans, and feminine stories—those of us who’ve had to carve out visibility with our bare hands. We are too often framed in sorrow, erased, or softened into something more palatable. But we are not tragic. We are not invisible. We are tender, powerful, radiant in our complexity. This project is a place for our stories to rise—unfiltered, unashamed, fully honored.

To be seen honestly is an act of courage. To celebrate that seeing is an act of love. Personal Project is both: resistance and ritual, portrait and process, art and offering.

My work continues to trace that edge between the stories we’re handed and the truth that lives beneath them. I want to know what’s left when we let the noise fall away—what quiet beauty rises when we are no longer performing.

Personal Project is that space. A space of honesty, of clarity, of care. A space where the raw architecture of identity can emerge—unscripted, unmasked, and fully seen.

And in that seeing, we remember: we were never broken. We were always becoming.