cameron day o’connell is a photographer, multimedia artist, writer, and curator. they weave a complex visual narrative with their work, touching on death and loss, medicinal plants, and mundane ritual. their work is inherently relational, informed by relationships between queer/trans people and the land. With photographs, printed silk, beeswax, beads, and more, o’connell’s body of work emerges from the interior of a fractured community with undefined edges, a product of a fractured and complex history. using film and digital photography, as well as mixed-media sculpture they tease apart the layers of the veil, the undergrowth, and the rot to reveal the regenerative and ritualistic intimacy in everyday life.
cameron day o’connell is a creature of change, having worked as a doula, community herbalist,, curator, and landscaper among many other things. O’Connell’s body of work is centered around relationships, where the body and the land intersect, and rituals of the mundane. they hold a bachelor of arts in visual arts and psychology from hampshire college. o’connell is a current member of SOIL artist-run gallery in pioneer square, seattle.