I view the world through a network of supposedly disparate identities as a feminine man, a rural queer, a well-read fool. I weave together my experiences into a tapestry of modern mythology and veneration of the profane. Making visual decisions from a nebulous non-binary perspective, these two-sided spectrums are replaced with holistic, intersectional views of these supposed opposites.
Operating like a mirror in a funhouse, this work distorts and reflects my grapplings with memory, trauma, and selfhood. This research and making-based series investigates the connections between Medieval and contemporary culture and the presence of alternative identities and queerness within both. I aim to create sites of inquiry into personal and cultural relationships between themes including pain and pleasure, love and hate, obsession and repulsion, and the sacred and the profane. My work upholds the practices of working-class mysticism, fantasy, erotica, and cultural mythos as acts of creation of new systems of veneration and reality that work to liberate those within them.
