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. These elements nod to the intimacy and desire present in queer partnerships, and to the lengths - both physical and emotional - that queer people migrate in the search for love and safety. This is particularly emphasized through these birds and flocks, examining that migration and movement for safety. 

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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. These works investigate the complexities of those partnerships and share an insight to intimacy, tenderness, and devotion of queer love. 

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