Where Flowers Now Wilhttps://issuu.com/vcustudentmedia/docs/amendme
Trinity
☆Laser engravement of original digital photography/collage on leather panel, strung on burnt canvas with twine, and embellished with studs, spikes, and piercing.
20x20in., 20x16in.
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Engravements on tanned leather, suspended on blackened wood frames with twine, referencing Ethiopian goat-skin canvas practices. The series—Mercury – Magic/Art (I), Venus – Sex (II), and Metal. (III)—utilizes leather dyed in the removed colors: turquoise (magic/art) and hot pink (sex) from the original eight-color Pride flag. These works reclaim the erased values of queer magic, art, and sexuality in an era of corporate Pride. Connecting celestial symbolism and Ethiopian binding techniques to create a sacred, defiant, and subcultural conception of pride. Metal (III), a self-portrait, acts as my extension of these initial Queer values-- with metal speaking for subcultures more broadly (specifically thinking, goth, metal, fetish, and Queerness itself). Recentering the importance of these subcultures to Queerness..