Hiraeth

As a reflection of my background as an animation student, Hiraeth is made up of two animated gifs and 10 illustrations. The environmental themes touch on some of my own experiences seeing the destruction wildfires can cause and the pollution of wild spaces. I created Zephyr and Moira as nonbinary characters, mixing gender indicators in their features, builds, clothing, and hair. I personally want to see more trans characters within media, especially trans characters in content that is not focused on emphasising that they are transgender and setting them apart from cisgender characters. Hiraeth is a narrative with characters who are first and foremost themselves, and their trans identities operate in the same space cisgender identites do (ex. a boy main character can be in media without having to specifically write out “I am a boy” and his gender is just another defining characteristic like hair color).