of dirt and silt and branch and bone is a body of work created during the 10-month Jerome Early Career Printmakers residency at Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis. This work contains densely-layered and rendered lithographs that explore the tenderness, loneliness, acceptance, and gentle anger of queerness and healing. These prints and writings consider the physical and emotional spaces of love, hurt, trauma, and remembrance of relationships in the forms of drawn landscapes and queer symbolism of the day-to-day life of a queer person.

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Home is something or someplace that all queer peoples dream of. Something to be found, regardless of support systems or upbringing.

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There have been many a temporary home in many a man's arms, across state lines, in unsafe places, in uninhabitable solace, in protected warm embraces, across the hedge, and in mid-flight. 

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I still don't think I've found it, I might not ever.

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This body of work examines those spaces and how I take up space as a queer person in rural places-something that is rapidly changing as it becomes unsafe to exist and unsafe to love in the environments I was born into. It’s easy for queer people to get used to resilience and ignore the trauma that we face every day, even from our own community and partners and it’s my hope that these spaces can offer solace to someone who has faced the same.

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The woods and fields do not judge, or mock.

And the birds are just as migratory as I.