At the borderline of time,

suicide forced me to come face to face with the things I loved most. Importantly, what I loved most about myself - my soul (growth, maturity, decay). We have as much to learn about death as we do life. This is the essential “isness”.

The literal translation of Halogen is “salt-producer” - coming from Greek roots hals “salt” and gen “giving birth to”. Salt is a preservative, a healing agent, a fertilizer, a moving force when things come in contact with it, and the oldest embalming chemical. Halogens are extremely reactive and electronegative - meaning the smaller the atom, the less distance and the stronger ability to attract electrons to it in a bond.

At Halogen, our lifework is suicide awareness in Black and Brown trans communities through visual art. We are creating life givers in story stewardship with gentleness, beauty, and invigorating rawness - the preservation of joy, isness, reunion, and the documentation of another day lived.

For these trans communities, Halogen is a space to explore their soul and the softness, emotiveness, and sweeping genuineness of it. For the viewer, Halogen is an invitation into reimagining their relationship with themselves and a way to experience someone’s soul.

The viewer plays a crucial role in suicide awareness as they’re a witness to the soul and therefore can aid in uplifting and elevating life - becoming life givers themselves.

The closer we are to observing the truth of the soul, the more life we attract.