A flourishing ecosystem of queer omnipotence is created with 9 wood-cut pieces forming a lace fly, named Jasper’s Garden. A touch sensor is attached to the leg of the fly. Allow yourself to become intimate with the piece and trigger sound to play, as a fly triggers a Venus flytrap to snap shut.
To paint emotion through the embodiment of life identifies queerness within my own fantastical coded language, paying homage to queer history flushed with coded signals. I depict the Venus flytrap, a carnivorous plant that thrives when fed its natural food sources, symbolizing to me the care needed for one’s queer identity to flourish. The green skinned girl in my art is a character I named Margo, who brings the anxiety of my sexuality to human-form. Lace Lady is an incarnation of peace found in queer love. My lace flies identify a romanticization of undesirability. The codes are steadily expanding, and the vibrancy of my art acts as armor of familial polarizing love.
