Thoughts and Happenings

  • 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

  • The office, but not THAT office

    The office, but not THAT office

    Today I make one thing. I may make something different tomorrow. I close down by hitting a kind of reset button on the office, restoring it to a ready state–ready for tomorrow’s adventure. Read more

  • Workshopping Reality

    Workshopping Reality

    Everything that’s not burning hot like that hothouse, not pushing and pulling to reshape us into our most glorious selves, not utterly committed and vulnerable, is the mistake, the fake, the loss, the near miss. Read more

  • Move Better, Draw Better

    Move Better, Draw Better

    Expanding my routines freed up my thinking about health and physique, freed up my body and, believe it or not, freed up my art, too. Read more

  • Exclusively Queer?

    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. Read more

  • Thicc of Heart

    Thicc of Heart

    How did we come to a place where physique is the realm of toxic masculinity? Read more