Artist Statement
I am a queer sculptor and installation artist dedicated to the preservation, enhancement, and accessibility of untold and otherwise neglected queer history. My work centers around borrowing traditions and ideas of oral storytelling and cross-generational revitalization from my ethnoreligious upbringing as a Jewish person and applying them to my queer heritage. This tradition and approach at its core is about the responsibility and dedication of a marginalized community towards itself and its own legacy. This is done by passing on information and stories from generation to generation, knowing these things and the people who lived through them will not exist forever.
LGBTQ+ history is riddled with loss and tragedy, which has made the task of keeping legacies and stories alive especially hard. As I see it, we as queer people stand at a pivotal point in queer history, where we are starting to slowly lose the people and the generation that was there for the solidification of a movement. In response to these notions, my work is dedicated to bringing forward the iconography of our queer history to queer people themselves and the general public in a way that can be concise, comprehensible, and impressionable. The medium of installation is important to me, as the art I'm creating is not necessarily the items and environments I create, but rather their activation and interaction with the audience, and particularly a queer one.
