Bleed Like Me 2026

My photography series, The Shibari Story, is included in Bleed Like Me, a group exhibition about the body as a medium for art and connection. Through photography, performance, installation, and video, the show brings together artists, practitioners, and communities who use the body as a canvas, tool, and vessel to explore boundaries, craft, desire, ritual, and altered states of consciousness. Each artist's perspective is different, but the work shares a common thread: human connection and a willingness to test the body's limits.
Curated by my good friend Lindsey Kincaid and produced by Queerly Complex, the show opens Saturday, September 5, 2026, and runs through September 26, 2026, at 465 Collective, 465 S. Van Ness, San Francisco, CA.
The Shibari Story was made in Tokyo during a week-long immersive trip to experience and photograph Japanese photographic culture, set in a private studio and performed by ​​​​​​​Hajime Kinoko, a shibari artist, and his collaborator, Misaki Kaneko. I captured the choreography of restraint: the stillness, the process, the connection between the artists. 
Gold light against shoji screens and a hanging bamboo pole. The same light on rope and skin through the slow work of tying and untying. An upside-down figure at the culmination of the performance. And the aftermath: rope marks, socks, coils left on tatami. Restraint takes time. I was interested in what passed between the performers, not what it became.
465 Collective
465 S. Van Ness, San Francisco aka Yelamu.
Opening Reception
Saturday, September 5, 2026, from 5 - 9 pm
Tuesdays Together
Sep 8, 15, 22, and 29, from 6 - 9 pm
Gallery Hours & Performance
Saturday, September 12, 2026
Gallery opens: 12 pm
Performance by XRAY AIMS: 2 pm
Kinky Sharps Quartz Art Market 
Saturday, September 19, 2026, from 2 - 6 pm
Gallery Hours & Performance
Saturday, September 26, 2026
Gallery opens: 12 pm
Performance: 2 pm
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