Why do grief, love, desire, restraint, control, sex, and disgust all fill the same space. I can’t separate them and they converge in my body, unconsciously, waiting to knock, for when my thoughts still. GLARE is used as a link between the intangible past and present through photographic motifs. I revolve around certain words and how they can function to have several meanings, like ‘inversion’ being an outdated term for homosexuality but a current term for a reversal, or ‘glare’ being light reflection or an intense stare. The multiple implications of words becomes the basis for constructing a visual narrative from a queer perspective. Reflecting vs Reflection, Glance vs Glare. As intangible, light-based concepts, they analyze how ‘inversion’ and ‘glare’ can be used to weave between a constructed reality and a lived experience. Caught between two worlds– dreaming and awakeness– I wrote GLARE to untangle why death, sex, grief, and love seem to all twist together at night.