Double Entendre
2025
IA&A at Hillyer
Washington, D.C.
Double Entendre, is a body of work that cross-examines policy, health, and anthropological studies around the AIDS Crisis and resource extraction, focusing primarily on silica and mining industries. By studying these seemingly disparate situations, I use my research and creative practice to interrogate the boundaries and assumptions about the complexities between the connotations of queer and blue collar. This work looks inwards, towards the intersections of these two identities to further understand its position socially, graphically, through data, archives, and images.
This body of work is grounded conceptually in printmaking, fiber, and glass art practices, creating historical nods to the infographic pamphlet, the AIDS quilt, the union t-shirt, and production glass. Double Entendre responds somatically to stories of love and labor around these phenomenons, positioning care and communication as critical resources of survival in the face of health and policy.
2025
IA&A at Hillyer
Washington, D.C.
Double Entendre, is a body of work that cross-examines policy, health, and anthropological studies around the AIDS Crisis and resource extraction, focusing primarily on silica and mining industries. By studying these seemingly disparate situations, I use my research and creative practice to interrogate the boundaries and assumptions about the complexities between the connotations of queer and blue collar. This work looks inwards, towards the intersections of these two identities to further understand its position socially, graphically, through data, archives, and images.
This body of work is grounded conceptually in printmaking, fiber, and glass art practices, creating historical nods to the infographic pamphlet, the AIDS quilt, the union t-shirt, and production glass. Double Entendre responds somatically to stories of love and labor around these phenomenons, positioning care and communication as critical resources of survival in the face of health and policy.
Felt, Flocked, and Folded
2025
UV print to die-cut brushed aluminum dibond, artist made vinyl stickers, solar panel hinges
156” by 80” by 26”
2025
UV print to die-cut brushed aluminum dibond, artist made vinyl stickers, solar panel hinges
156” by 80” by 26”
Felt, Flocked, and Folded (detail)
2025
UV print to die-cut brushed aluminum dibond, artist made vinyl stickers, solar panel hinges
156” by 80” by 26”
2025
UV print to die-cut brushed aluminum dibond, artist made vinyl stickers, solar panel hinges
156” by 80” by 26”
Sucker
2025
UV print on brushed aluminum dibond, solar panel hinges
56” by 80” by 18”
2025
UV print on brushed aluminum dibond, solar panel hinges
56” by 80” by 18”
Sucker (detail)
2025
UV print on brushed aluminum dibond, solar panel hinges
56” by 80” by 18”
2025
UV print on brushed aluminum dibond, solar panel hinges
56” by 80” by 18”
A Red Flag in a Field
2025
Screen print and acrylic on dibond, patchwork fabrics, sewn, binder clasps
40” by 48”
2025
Screen print and acrylic on dibond, patchwork fabrics, sewn, binder clasps
40” by 48”
A Red Flag in a Field (side view)
2025
Screen print and acrylic on dibond, patchwork fabrics, sewn, binder clasps
48” by 40”
2025
Screen print and acrylic on dibond, patchwork fabrics, sewn, binder clasps
48” by 40”
Going Dark
2025
Screen print, collage, acrylic, graphite, on dibond
30” by 24”
2025
Screen print, collage, acrylic, graphite, on dibond
30” by 24”
Defense Mechanism
2025
Screen print, collage, acrylic, graphite, on dibond
15.25” by 21”
2025
Screen print, collage, acrylic, graphite, on dibond
15.25” by 21”
Advocacy: Examinations from Capitals to Memorials
2025
Laser cut and painted wood, quilted DTF vinyl transfers, sandblasted quartz countertop samples, glass vessels (decorated and cold worked), powder print on glass, sand, rings, crystals, photocopy with graphite, and a sandblasted used iPhone
Variable Dimensions
2025
Laser cut and painted wood, quilted DTF vinyl transfers, sandblasted quartz countertop samples, glass vessels (decorated and cold worked), powder print on glass, sand, rings, crystals, photocopy with graphite, and a sandblasted used iPhone
Variable Dimensions
Advocacy: Examinations from Capitals to Memorials (detail)
2025
Laser cut and painted wood, quilted DTF vinyl transfers, sandblasted quartz countertop samples, glass vessels (decorated and cold worked), powder print on glass, sand, rings, crystals, photocopy with graphite, and a sandblasted used iPhone
Variable Dimensions
2025
Laser cut and painted wood, quilted DTF vinyl transfers, sandblasted quartz countertop samples, glass vessels (decorated and cold worked), powder print on glass, sand, rings, crystals, photocopy with graphite, and a sandblasted used iPhone
Variable Dimensions
Advocacy: Examinations from Capitals to Memorials (detail)
2025
Laser cut and painted wood, quilted DTF vinyl transfers, sandblasted quartz countertop samples, glass vessels (decorated and cold worked), powder print on glass, sand, rings, crystals, photocopy with graphite, and a sandblasted used iPhone
Variable Dimensions
2025
Laser cut and painted wood, quilted DTF vinyl transfers, sandblasted quartz countertop samples, glass vessels (decorated and cold worked), powder print on glass, sand, rings, crystals, photocopy with graphite, and a sandblasted used iPhone
Variable Dimensions
Advocacy: Examinations from Capitals to Memorials (detail, backside)
2025
Laser cut and painted wood, quilted DTF vinyl transfers, sandblasted quartz countertop samples, glass vessels (decorated and cold worked), powder print on glass, sand, rings, crystals, photocopy with graphite, and a sandblasted used iPhone
Variable Dimensions
2025
Laser cut and painted wood, quilted DTF vinyl transfers, sandblasted quartz countertop samples, glass vessels (decorated and cold worked), powder print on glass, sand, rings, crystals, photocopy with graphite, and a sandblasted used iPhone
Variable Dimensions
Advocacy: Examinations from Capitals to Memorials (detail)
2025
Laser cut and painted wood, quilted DTF vinyl transfers, sandblasted quartz countertop samples, glass vessels (decorated and cold worked), powder print on glass, sand, rings, crystals, photocopy with graphite, and a sandblasted used iPhone
Variable Dimensions
2025
Laser cut and painted wood, quilted DTF vinyl transfers, sandblasted quartz countertop samples, glass vessels (decorated and cold worked), powder print on glass, sand, rings, crystals, photocopy with graphite, and a sandblasted used iPhone
Variable Dimensions