Mi Vida Trans, an Altar of Voices! presenting,"CHEST."
Empowering the visibility of trans masc and nonbinary folks while normalizing the visibility of trans bodies
Meet the Artist
BIO
Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Ocelotl Mora is a multidisciplinary artist and transgender man of Mexican descent who is originally from San Antonio, Texas. His primary medium is photography, particularly self-portraits and portraits of other transgender men as well as transmasculine and nonbinary individuals of Mexican descent. Combining his portraiture with storytelling, Ocelotl explores the intersections of identity and gender with Mexican culture and traditions. He also embraces the Chicano aesthetic of rasquachismo, which involves crafting something meaningful with limited resources. Ocelotl has exhibited his work in Albuquerque, San Antonio, Salt Lake City, and Miami, and his upcoming exhibit, Chest, aims to normalize the visibility of trans bodies while honoring the sacredness of the gender-diverse journey.
Art Portfolio
La Trans Cena
My Sacred Closet - From Trauma to Creation
My Trans Generation
La Trancena is my personal story of the many transitions I've made throughout my lifetime and the inner battle I went through to survive the medical assaults and all my traumas, as well as my internal battle with the christ i knew as a kid and the one i knew once i understood they hated everything about me.
My Trans Generation
My Sacred Closet - From Trauma to Creation
My Trans Generation
My Trans Generations is set up as if you entered a sweat lodge, elders first. storytelling through written stories with portraits of 13 trans men, trans masculine and nonbinary, Latinx, chicanx, 2spirit people ages ranging from 15 years old to 54 years old. Meeting on a monthly basis as an emotional support group.
My Sacred Closet - From Trauma to Creation
My Sacred Closet - From Trauma to Creation
My Sacred Closet - From Trauma to Creation
My Sacred Closet is an installation of my gender affirming procedure. My medical trauma recovery and how it followed the Nahui Ollin Teotl, a Mexica traditional medicine wheel. As well as an installation of my altar and the trauma work I did in my closet transforming my closet from the place I feared the most to the most sacred space that held me and thought me to create.
Storytelling through Digital Art
Storytelling through Digital Art
My Sacred Closet - From Trauma to Creation
3 series of digital art of challenges I was going through as I transitioned and had no support, turning to my camera to share my struggles, and an inability to use my voice.
CHEST
Storytelling through Digital Art
Colaborations
Empowering the voices of transgender men, trans masculine, and nonbinary folks and normalizing the visibility of trans bodies. A 10-month process of monthly gatherings sharing our stories with each other with guided traditional medicine modalities to support the participants during these difficult times, providing them with tools, connection, community, and support. As they share their vulnerability through writing workshops, portraiture, and audio recordings of their stories.
Colaborations
Storytelling through Digital Art
Colaborations
Work that I have collaborated on or participated in.
A living Altar of Voices
Mi Vida Trans
It is a living altar of voices. A place for trans men to have a platform seen as an altar, as we honor each person's journey, just as they are. A community collection of lived experiences of trans men, trans masc, and nonbinary people, with the majority being people of color.
Raw, authentic, and deep storytelling!