Devin Alejandro-Wilder (arm on tree), Collaborative Portrait
Devin stands outside in speckled sunlight in front of a tree with their right arm and hand loosely resting on a tree branch behind them. They are wearing a white tank top and jeans.
Marley Zollman (blue tree), Collaborative Portrait
Marley gazes outward as she sits outside on the ground. She leans on her backwards-extending right arm with her legs tucked underneath themselves. She wears an off-white satin cami and blue jeans.
Devin and Marley (laying on each other), Collaborator Portrait
Devin lies in the grass with their neck slightly raised, side-eyeing the lens; their hands rest on their chest with splayed fingers. Marley lies on top of Devin, close enough that their torsos and legs touch each other. Marley looks at the camera, holding her upper body up and away from Devin’s face with her arms.
Devin Alejandro-Wilder and Marley Zollman
Devin Alejandro-Wilder (they/them) is a latinx visual artist who moves across media to haunt and inquire, investigate and confront the beliefs and systems we find ourselves entangled within. Born deaf, queer, and identifying as non-binary their work explores themes around in/visibility, “performance”, and the false binary between care/harm. As a studio member at the Museum of Human Achievement, they are also a participant in The Revolution School: Operation Scrooge and League of Superheroes (Los Angeles) and are the founder of the virtual/IRL free skool initiative Free Skool Now.
Website: https://www.devinalejandrowilder.com/
Instagram: chicano_boyfriend__
Marley Zollman (she/her) is a multi-media artist working in ceramics and analog photography. Originally from Vermont, Marley has been living and working in Austin, Texas, since December 2019. She is a member of East Side Pot Shop, a local ceramic studio, and participates in and runs ceramic pop-up sales around the city. You can find her work on Instagram.
Instagram: earthgoop
Sin Boca
Devin stands in front of a white wall in a skin-toned binder, hair covering their eyes underneath their black-framed glasses. They squeeze the bulb of the cable release that is wrapping around their face and mouth.
Tangle(d)
Devin and Marley stand in front of a white wall, both topless; Devin wears a skin-tone binder and Marley is nude. Devin gazes straight on while Marley looks down to the left. They are both bound by a black cable and Devin is squeezing the bulb of the cable release to take the picture.
Press(ed)
Devin and Marley stand in front of a white wall, both topless. Devin wears a skin-tone binder and Marley is nude. They both are staring at the camera, with the cord of the black cable release wrapping around them. Their faces pressed into one another. Marley’s blue fingernail is peaking out of her fist as she squeezes the bulb of the cable release
Lucha
Marley stands in front of a white wall in a fighter’s stance, back turned to the camera. The cable is crossing over her back and around her right arm, interacting with the curve and fluidity of her tattoos, which are a black thin arm-band and a black thin circle around her elbow.
Dev Lounging in the Grass
Devin lays in a field of grass wearing a white tank top, blue denim jeans, and dirtied white chuck converse. They have a short bob haircut and black framed glasses. They’re supporting their head in their hands as they casually lean back into the ground, compressing the grass.
Marley Resting in the Grass
Marley lays in a field of grass with her right arm bent up and her left arm is touching, and then fading into the long grass. Her legs are slightly overlapping, and her eyes are closed, expressing a blissful or relaxed feeling. She wears a gray spaghetti strap tank top and powder blue linen pants.
Nopales Mariachis
Marley and Devin stand in a field of tall grass with cacti and trees, back to back draped with a continuous rope intertwined with white roses, lilies, baby’s breath, and spider chrysanthemums, referred to as a “wedding lasso”. They both stand profile, gazing downward, supporting the flowers in their hands.
What if we had eloped here?
Devin and Marley stand in a field dotted with yellow flowers in the early morning. Trees are framing the background as they stand back to back, a foot apart. Devin gazes at the camera while Marley looks down to the right. Devin is wearing a white tank top and blue jeans and Marley wears a gray spaghetti strap tank top and blue linen pants. The lasso encircles them, and keeps them from walking further apart.
Boy Groom
Devin stands in a field with yellow flowers, with trees framing the background. They’re wearing a white tank top and blue jeans. They are draped again in the wreath-like lasso of white roses, lilies, baby’s breath, and spider chrysanthemums, holding it out to their right as if they were extending a wing.
Flower Girl
Marley stands in a field with yellow flowers, trees framing the background. She is wearing a gray spaghetti strap tank top and powder blue linen pants. She is standing in profile and looking towards the camera. The flower lasso of white lilies, roses, baby’s breath, and spider chrysanthemums is hanging around her neck and falling down her back, emulating a cape as she poses.
Wedding Lasso
The lasso of white lilies, roses, baby’s breath, and spider chrysanthemums used in the photo spread, isolated and close up in the field.
Wedding Lasso (detail)
A further detail of the flower lasso of white lilies, roses, baby’s breath, and spider chrysanthemums. Here, you can see the wire hand-wrapped around the rope, holding and piercing the flowers to it as it lays softly in the grass.