Addicted to your intimacy, 2025, Aquatint etching, 22”x9”Addicted to your intimacy, 2025, Aquatint etching, 22”x9”Addicted to your intimacy, 2025, Aquatint etching, 22”x9”Addicted to your intimacy, 2025, Aquatint etching, 22”x9”Inches away, you’re in my skin. Half a world, and your touch is warm., 2025, Hardground Etching, 15”x12”Play with me like a pretty boy, 2025, Softground etching, 9”x12”
I use my own
form as a tool to simulate relationships in the work within three spheres:
myself as the artist, myself as the subject of queer life, and the audience as
the viewing “other.” I define this “other” as a voyeuristic audience, an active
watcher rather than a participant. The “other” exists separately but in
parallel to moments of intimacy, where identity and self are both revealed and
performed for the audience’s pleasure. These works follow a narrative of interpersonal intimacy. Through
visual language the body of work engages with queer relationships through the
proxy of hands. The subject of the work represented by simply hands both
objectifies the subject by limiting their view, while focusing on these intense
moments of desire. The prints explore a range of intimacy in both romantic and
sexual attraction.