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Okay, now its a forest

A rage page i did when college stuff was going down | 8x11 in paper and alcohol markers

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Descent / Dissent 

December 2019, from a poetry ‘book’ we wrote for my AP Lit class. Might share some more of it. 

[featuring from top to bottom: 1. letter by Alan Turing to Norman Routledge. 2. poem by sappho of lesbos 3. letter by Oscar Wilde to Alfred ‘Boise’ Douglas 4. “I am out therefore I am” Granfury / ACT UP 5. Everywhere/Anywhere- Adam Eli 6. trans pride / trans power, 2000] 

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2021 Gold Key Portfolio

These works tell the story of the creation of queer love. Taking inspiration from the Greek Myth about the creation of soulmates, these pieces tell the story through a queer lens- framing queer love as Earth-changing, vibrant, and beautiful. Using figures that get progressively more and more ‘human’ in nature: forming faces, speech, and finally becoming ‘real life’: representing the journey many queer people take as they learn about themselves, and queer history. The story begins with the ‘Children of the Sun, the Moon & the Earth’; with their four arms, legs, and two faces bound together. Their essences fill the universe, and they are consumed with each other. There is no need for love here, they have all they need in each other. But that cannot be- and forces outside of their control destroy them. In ‘the Destruction’ The Children are torn apart by Zeus’ bolt for being too powerful. He does not know this creates love, and the need for it in The Children. As queer people, we are often alone for a lot of our lives, taking in pieces of people that make us feel more whole. ‘Your Feelings Are Deeper Than You Know’ represents gaining the knowledge queer kids need to survive- the knowledge that we are not alone, that people like us have lived and loved before, and we will live and love like they did. The Child internalizes it, but they are, in that moment, very alone in the universe. Finally- two Children are reunited: the two halves reunite and find community with each other. They now radiate what alone Children will take in: creating a better, safer, and more whole universe. They’ve gained faces, scars, and shadow, representing a lived history and experiences only they know. We learn about those experiences through “Yes, Very.” Understanding the individual lives of queer people is a vital piece of a queer persons acceptance of themselves. Something the narrators in “Yes, Very” are beginning to grapple with. Finally, the queer Child has evolved- they are now real, viewing the queer people of the past, and feeling the comfort of knowing they are not alone in the universe. They may not have found their other half yet, but they have found the beauty of community and queer life.

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My art is in the wrong order here but <3 very fun and fresh <3 i am actually very proud of this portfolio 

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First lovers

A sketch I did in the MoMa, July 2017 I believe

Alcohol markers on drawing paper

8 in x 11 in

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Sleepy time, 2017-18 i think

Acrylic on cardboard

5 in x 5 in

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A blue guy, december 2019

Arcylic paint on cardboard

4 in x 5 in

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two lost paintings, water color on cardboard. sophomore year 

i miss them :( 

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abstract stalks, freshman year 

6 in x 6 in

acrylic on drawing paper 

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the garden | 2016 (I think ?) 
alcohol markers on drawing paper. 
~1.5 ft x 1.5ft~

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acrylic on canvas; 6 x 4 in

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this lil guy..... theres something about him

sharpie on drawing paper

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a party, and an orr-gee 

acrylic on a sketch book cover, and watercolour on drawing paper 

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museum 

i broke a pen open and had some fun: watercolour and pen on drawing paper

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couple’a hands

watercolour and sharpie on drawing paper

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they stole his wife 

watercolour on drawing paper

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sketches but they’ve been screwed with

sharpie/pen on drawing paper