My artwork explores and celebrates sexual freedom as a form of resistance to multilayered stigma and trauma, both historical and ongoing. It explores the relationship between death and photography, accentuating a longing for what is no longer present. Focusing on the overlap between internalized shame and identity affirmation, I draw from family albums and vintage gay pornography. These vernaculars, inherited from biological and chosen families, are the foundation to my visual iconography. I interweave photographs, sculpture, text, and video to examine the inner workings and the visceral charges of sexual connection, as they manifest in the context of his everyday life.
