Research Project 2025-2026
I’m working on a year-long academic artistic research project at SLARG, Sint Lucas Antwerpen School of Arts. Through experiments with visual essays, I explore ways of drawing myself beyond grids and gender binaries. The stories grow from my large archive of tiny tiny sketchbooks, a safe space where I draw about gender, transitioning, parenthood and everyday life.
Site Of Reversible Destiny is the first, small chapter of this reserach project.
As this project unfolds, I choose to keep the traces of my searching visible. Each page carries both the hesitation and the discovery that come with drawing as exploration. My aim is to create a small gesture of quiet, visual activism in a world where space for gender variation can feel narrow.
The publication is riso printed in November ‘25 at the workspaces of Sint Lucas Antwerp.
Font: Velvelyne (Mariel Nils & Manon Van der Borght, Velvetyne). They nurtured the Liberation Sans structure until it flourished and grew branches and expanded it into four weights with post-binary ligatures. Via Typothèque Bye Bye Binary, a collective exploring new typographic forms adapted to inclusive, non-binary and post-binary writing.
Another series I’m working on with Ink.
And some more pencil:
I’m always happy to talk about research, queer and/or trans comics, and narratives. If you’d like to connect, feel free to reach out: hello@samvanbelle.com