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Zackary Drucker — Distance is where your heart is, home is where you hang your heart, #1
Zackary Drucker

Distance is where your heart is, home is where you hang your heart, #1

2011

Taken during a snow-bound Christmas weekend at Drucker's childhood home in Syracuse, New York, this digital pigment print belongs to a series of more than two dozen photographs made in close collaboration with Amos Mac, founder and publisher of Original Plumbing. The work fuses personal history, performance, and an unguarded exhibitionism that feels simultaneously documentary and staged, intimate and aware of being watched. What emerges is less a conventional portrait session than a sustained dialogue between two people occupying distinct positions within trans experience, Mac as a trans man and Drucker as a trans woman, each extending trust to the other across a short but meaningful distance. Drucker, whose practice spans photography, video, and performance, has long interrogated the construction of identity, desire, and visibility within queer and trans communities. Here, the domestic setting of a childhood home amplifies those concerns, layering the psychic weight of family space and formative memory beneath images that are openly sensual and rigorously self-aware. The resulting photographs resist easy categorization, sitting comfortably between collaboration and self-portraiture, between archive and intervention. Presented as a digital pigment print measuring 61 by 91.4 centimeters, this work is editioned to five and bears the artist's signature. Edition one of this photograph is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, underscoring the institutional recognition Drucker's practice has earned. The work is currently available through Luis De Jesus Los Angeles and is offered unframed, allowing the collector flexibility in presentation.

Medium
Digital pigment print
Overall
Signed
Yes
Location
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

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Zackary Drucker, Distance is where your heart is, home is where you hang your heart, #1, 2011

Taken during a snow-bound Christmas weekend at Drucker's childhood home in Syracuse, New York, this digital pigment print belongs to a series of more than two dozen photographs made in close collaboration with Amos Mac, founder and publisher of Original Plumbing. The work fuses personal history, performance, and an unguarded exhibitionism that feels simultaneously documentary and staged, intimate and aware of being watched. What emerges is less a conventional portrait session than a sustained dialogue between two people occupying distinct positions within trans experience, Mac as a trans man and Drucker as a trans woman, each extending trust to the other across a short but meaningful distance. Drucker, whose practice spans photography, video, and performance, has long interrogated the construction of identity, desire, and visibility within queer and trans communities. Here, the domestic setting of a childhood home amplifies those concerns, layering the psychic weight of family space and formative memory beneath images that are openly sensual and rigorously self-aware. The resulting photographs resist easy categorization, sitting comfortably between collaboration and self-portraiture, between archive and intervention. Presented as a digital pigment print measuring 61 by 91.4 centimeters, this work is editioned to five and bears the artist's signature. Edition one of this photograph is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, underscoring the institutional recognition Drucker's practice has earned. The work is currently available through Luis De Jesus Los Angeles and is offered unframed, allowing the collector flexibility in presentation.

Medium
Digital pigment print
Dimensions
overall: 61 x 91.4 cm
Year
2011
Edition
of 5
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

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