Laurence Ross

Nov 15, 2024 | bmoreart.com | Cara Ober |Laurence Ross |Elliot Doughtie

Queering Locker Rooms and Bathrooms into Sites of Transformation (or Confrontation) November 13, 2024 Words: , Laurence Ross Photography: Vivian Marie Doering Velcro, zippers, and loads of elastic. Combination locks, bathroom stalls, and cloudy shower doors. Is a locker room the pinnacle site of all human transformation? We enter wearing one set of clothes and leave wearing another; we shift from one part of our day to the next; we sweat, bathe, dry, dress.

Jan 19, 2024 | bmoreart.com | Laurence Ross

A young woman’s face is held in profile by the hands of her mother, who is otherwise out of frame. The woman’s chin seems to rest on the heels of the mother’s palms, her eyes closed, her nose tilted upward as if she’s taking in a bouquet the viewer can’t smell, or rapt by some invisible force. The mother’s hands look gentle, supportive, even guiding. Such softness and intimacy from a part of the body that, in a different context, can just as easily be used as a weapon.