Gabriel Boyd is an artist based in New York. Working primarily with found materials and performance, their practice explores Black cultural signifiers, such as Black hair and hair care products to interrogate how Black experiences interact with the virtual. Growing up amidst the capital buildings of Albany provided Gabriel with an acuity of the dissonance that exists surrounding political structures. This awareness sparked their fascination with how culture survives in spaces warped by power. It is this and their identity as a Black trans individual that stokes the fires of their creative exploration. They leverage skills accrued in and out of academia such as sewing, 3D modeling, and videography, to generate objects and environments that are equal parts grotesque amalgams and witty references to virtual existence. This reference to viscera and technology is informed by the likes of David Cronenberg and is queered through the incorporation of black cultural ephemera. Gabriel aspires to generate community and find ways to utilize their experiences to facilitate physical empathy in digital spaces. They are invested in the tension between the tangible and the virtual, seeking to carve out spaces where Black and queer bodies and all the baggage they hold can be represented and felt. Their work bridges digital and physical spaces, challenging the sterility of the virtual by reimagining it as a site of haptic connection, and collective intimacy, where wires and bodily material blend and become both conduit and container for shared experiences.