A Holobiont is defined as multiple organisms existing together to create a vibrant ecological community benefiting the surrounding environment.  The ways that queer and trans relationships form, often creating loving connections through found and chosen families that radiate out to form supportive communities, reflect the nature of a holobiont ecosystem. As much as anti-trans rhetoric would like to think that trans existence is attacking their experience of gender, in reality it is about asking oneself, continuously, how can I be my truest self.   In what ways can I honor how I exist in my body?  It is every singular organism existing in its own form, not mimicking something else, that makes a successful holobiont organism.  Thus every person existing in ways that feels truest to them, how they exist in their gender, transforms not just the individual but the community at large.  These are the themes guiding this series of work.  The project began in the creation of a community quilt in collaboration with Callum Angus and Sincere Studios in 2023.  From these cyanotypes, combined with inkjet prints, I  create collages made in collaboration with trans and queer individuals and the surrounding environment.  Each piece focuses on the  hands of each individual,  and how they connect with themselves or another.   It is through these gestures of an open palm, or outstretched hand that these works both honor the individual, the landscape, and  community connection