This new work, West says, “lays its temporal and spatial ground in Boston,” where they learned the foundations of their artistic practice as an M.F.A. West’s newest installation opens at FAWC’s Hudson D. “We’re constantly trying on identities and taking them off, so there is something about working with fashion that feels incredibly liberating.” “Fashion is inherently so queer,” says West. Working with a fashion line by designer Jamall Osterholm, West creates a magical, mesmerizing celebration of the queer, Black divine. West, who won a Student Academy Award in the alternative/experimental category for their short film Patron Saint in 2019, defines themself as a “time-based artist placing queerness and duration in dialogue.” Patron Saint, which West co-wrote and directed while apprenticing with Nick Knight at SHOWstudio in London, re-imagines the history of Joan of Arc. “In a way we are all passing by each other unseen right now.” West’s installation, he is quit, at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. “It’s been such a tremendous couple of years of loss, of huge social shifts and social collapse even,” continues West. The intention is for the ecology of the space to speak through impression alone, which leads to a much deeper experience. “People have asked me why I haven’t set up a night-vision camera to take photos of what is moving through the darkness, but I’m not interested in naming these hidden, fringe creatures. “The piece is changing throughout its time on show,” says Fine Arts Work Center fellow Georden West of their installation, he is quit, on view at PAAM through March 6. Bugs, mice, and other “gallery ghosts” leave trails in he is quit. These “gallery ghosts” leave faint traces of their presence visible to the viewer the next day. In the stillness of the night, small creatures travel unseen through a rectangle of dust on the floor of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.