In this series of work called "Fags: A Process", I address my timorous feelings about my genetic gay roots. With every new generation, family stories are reshaped, diluted, or erased. In this work, I interweave my family’s queerness with my own in a recursive process, acknowledging its repeating existence with the intention of not replicating the past in order to manifest a new fulfilled outcome.
By creating gel skin textiles with enlarged photographs which are then machine sewn together, hand embroidered, painted, and collaged I connect my story with that of my dad, and my sister by stitching myself and my sister into the photo of my father. I mend a renewed narrative of an evolving truth, that looks to the future with bold persistence and reclaimed humanity.
Fag 1937
Paper, gel medium, thread, embroidery floss, oil paint, Japanese paper
14” x 14”
Flaming
Paper, gel medium, thread, embroidery floss, oil paint, Japanese paper
14” x 14”
Flaming Fag
Paper, gel medium, thread, embroidery floss, oil paint, Japanese paper
14” x 14”