Queerness and me

This is my end of year exhibition, a compilation of work I completed from June till November in my first year course at Michaelis School of Fine Art. I had six subjects breaking down this semester into mediums and genres of thought.

Before setting up

 

After setting up

Charcoal life drawings

  

Newspaper and magazine collages

Woodcut series

Phone camera and pinhole photography

Acrylic painting and magazine collage

A ball clay and carboard maquette

 

And, finally, a new media proposal for an animated short film.

Solace in a memory, a poem, a moment

I have wanted to be visible for so long. I have been communing with a strange ensemble of voices within me. They were not all kind, they are not all kind. I want to find a harmony, speaking for them all.

2019. 08. 24.

It was 2016, I was 17

I lay outspread

  like Mary on the cross

  gripping you to me

writhing

crying

forgetting it all again

till the next moment I feel

Something close to real

again.

crying

running

I’ll get

out before

anyone can stop me

leave this earth

by dissolving into

  the dirt

  decomposing

like a dead tree’s

poem to god

  It was 2016

near the end

when I screamed

for you to leave

then wept

when you

were gone.

Pride is Sin