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Double Entendre
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News
RecentPaintings (2025 - Present)
Ceramics (2025 - Present)
Divine Tragedy
Double Entendre
Built By Popular Demand
Design + Constructions
About/CV
Double Entendre, 2025. Installation view at IA&A at Hillyer in Washington, D.C..
Felt, Flocked, and Folded, 2025. UV print to brushed aluminum dibond, custom stickers, and solar panel hinges. 80” by 156” by 26”
Felt, Flocked, and Folded (detail shot), 2025. UV print to brushed aluminum dibond, custom stickers, and solar panel hinges. 80” by 156” by 26”
Sucker , 2025. UV print to brushed aluminum dibond, custom stickers, and solar panel hinges. 80” by 56” by 18”
Felt, Flocked, and Folded, 2025. UV print to brushed aluminum dibond, custom stickers, and solar panel hinges. 80” by 156” by 26”
Felt, Flocked, and Folded (detail shot), 2025. UV print to brushed aluminum dibond, custom stickers, and solar panel hinges. 80” by 156” by 26”
Sucker , 2025. UV print to brushed aluminum dibond, custom stickers, and solar panel hinges. 80” by 56” by 18”
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
Advocacy: Examinations from Capitals to Memorials (detail view), 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 view), 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
A Red Flag in a Field, 2025. Screen print, acrylic, collage, and varnish on dibond, sewn flag with binder clips. 48” by 40”
Going Dark, 2025. Screen print, acrylic, and collage on dibond. 24” by 30”
Defense Mechanism, 2025. Screen print, acrylic, and collage on dibond. 15.25” by 21.5”
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.
The work for Double Entendre was supported via a Gay Cultural Studies and Creative Research Grant via Old Dominion University. Thank you to the Women and Gender Studies Department at ODU for digitizing the entire Our Own Press archive for research purposes. Additionally, giving a special thanks to Kim Tully at the Special Collections Research Center at the Charles Library on Temple University for facilitating research with the AIDS Library of Philadelphia Collection.