VIADO is an ongoing multidisciplinary project combining photography, video performance, sound, and material processes to explore queer embodiment, masculinity, and the relationship between body and landscape. Rooted in queer ecology, the work reflects on nature as a space of transformation, contradiction, and resistance. The title references the Brazilian slur "viado", derived from "veado" (“deer”), historically used to police gender expression and queer identity. Through performance and self-representation, I reclaim this language by embodying the figure it attempts to marginalise. Across forests, rivers, tidal landscapes, and rural environments, the body moves between human, animal, and monstrous states, questioning ideas of masculinity, visibility, and belonging. Developed between the Brazilian countryside where I was raised and the landscapes of the New Forest in the UK, VIADO reflects on migration, cultural translation, and the instability of identity. The work approaches nature not as a passive backdrop or romantic refuge but as an active space where the body can dissolve, transform, and renegotiate itself outside rigid social structures. Throughout the project, gestures of ritual and self-care become acts of resistance: brushing hair in tidal waters, covering the skin in glitter, and interacting with antlers, mud, seaweed, roots, and organic matter. Glitter operates simultaneously as vulnerability and defiance, referencing femininity, queer visibility, and the violence historically projected onto bodies considered excessive or non-normative. Photography and moving image are used as tools for embodiment and performance rather than documentation alone. Through staged actions, immersive sound, and interactions with the landscape, VIADO proposes queerness as something inseparable from transformation, fluidity, and the natural world itself.