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Tag: representation
The Evolving Gaze
I’m thrilled to have two paintings included in the latest volume of the International Human Rights Arts Movement journal. Here’s what they have to say about it.
Coded works, coded lives
Wherein a biography of John Singer Sargent stirs thoughts of the balancing acts queers faced then and what we still face today.
What Men Want and What Men Look Like
reading this book, and sharing in the experiences and reminiscences, I wondered: is representation also the freedom to present your desire, unedited, uncoded, uninhibited for those that share the desire? We bond over not being the same, but wanting the same.
Spartacus, queer hero
I can’t capture the entirety of queer experience in any single work or art. But, I can strive, one step at a time, one canvas at a time, to tell better stories than what I had in my formative years.
The Path of Least Respectability
My art is a celebration of the erotic not just for pleasure alone, but pleasure as activism, pleasure as pathway to liberation.
Exclusively Queer?
When you start to engage with the cishet power brokers and gatekeepers, pundits and pontificators, you’ll often get the well-intentioned advice to straighten it up or go nowhere.
Thoughts on Queer Representation
Just like process over product, think creator over creation.