representation Archives - Edward Ficklin

Coded works, coded lives

Jun 15, 2024

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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

Jan 15, 2024

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Edward Ficklin

in Musings

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

Sep 22, 2023

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Edward Ficklin

in Musings, Process

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

Jul 11, 2023

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Edward Ficklin

in Musings, Shows

My art is a celebration of the erotic not just for pleasure alone, but pleasure as activism, pleasure as pathway to liberation.

Go Figure

Mar 17, 2023

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Edward Ficklin

in Musings

Making art is grabbing some inchoate idea from the ether and trying wrestle it into physical existence. Always failing, really, but never stopping.

Exclusively Queer?

Jan 22, 2022

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Edward Ficklin

in Musings

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.