In this series of cyanotype works, Landeta uses their body as both site and material to investigate the complex relationships between queer and trans bodies and the systems of power that shape them. Each piece begins in solitude—dancing and moving through the studio space, allowing the body to find its own language of resistance, grief, intimacy, and empowerment. These movements are captured through gestural charcoal drawings, which become the foundation for unique cyanotype prints that transform ephemeral gesture into permanent archive.

The cyanotype process itself holds particular resonance for this work. Born from the intersection of science and art, this photographic technique creates blueprints in the truest sense—documents that map presence and absence, light and shadow. The distinctive blue that emerges speaks to both melancholy and possibility, echoing the complex emotional landscapes that queer and trans bodies navigate daily.

Through this somatic approach to mark-making, the artist explores how gesture can function as a form of queer record-keeping. Each drawing captures not just the physical trace of movement, but the accumulated weight of collective memory—the histories of LGBTQI+ struggle, violence, and empowerment that live within queer and trans bodies. The translation from charcoal to cyanotype creates a layered dialogue between the immediacy of bodily experience and the permanence of historical record.

These works center queer joy as liberation while acknowledging the systems of power that continue to shape and constrain queer and trans existence. In the space between dance and documentation, between movement and memory, these pieces offer both witness and celebration—blueprints for bodies that refuse to be contained, that insist on their own complex humanity, and that carry within them the revolutionary potential of simply being.