The Lovers is an ongoing body of work that began during a two month-long residency at St. Michael's Printshop is St. John's, Newfoundland. These prints draw reference to birds as harbingers of information and story, focusing on their migrations and relationships with each other to echo the love and longing in queer partnerships.

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Many bird species have been observed exhibiting homosexual behaviors, bonding for life with the same gender, sharing courting rituals, and raising young together. Always rendered in pairs, these birds are closely intertwined, in flight, in conflict, or have passed on, mirroring the devotion of love and the loss of a partner and therefore loss of companionship that is so sacred in queer partnerships. Queer love is quiet, difficult, and essential and these works investigate those complexities and share an insight to that intimacy, tenderness, and devotion.

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