Thoughts and Happenings

  • What Men Want and What Men Look Like

    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. Read more

  • Engaged Buddhism

    Engaged Buddhism

    Making art is my path of engaged Buddhism–the radical act of creating beauty and using imagination to point the way to a better world. Read more

  • Buddhism and the Erotic

    Buddhism and the Erotic

    Why is the erotic, something so fundamental, powerful, and pleasurable criminalized, censored, and shamed? Because, if let loose it threatens to tear down the house which whiteness built. Read more

  • Spartacus, queer hero

    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. Read more

  • The Path of Least Respectability

    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. Read more

  • John Carter, but make it gay!

    John Carter, but make it gay!

    The gay erotic surrealism of Burrough’s hyper-masculine hero John Carter unpacked through the medium of a new oil painting Read more

  • A little modesty, please!

    A little modesty, please!

    As nativism and fascist politics are on the rise everywhere, a heroine like Modesty is more vital and relevant than ever Read more

  • Go Figure

    Go Figure

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

  • We are not free labor, we are not the product!

    We are not free labor, we are not the product!

    Imagine, if you will, our own queer, smutty twittergram where we share our work and our thoughts without fear of algorithmic erasure, trolls, or weaponized reports. Read more

  • The erotic as continuum–not binary

    The erotic as continuum–not binary

    Why is sex, and the erotic in general, segregated in our storytelling? Read more