acrylic, pearls, + self blown xenon tubing on seamed canvas and plastic. 42” x 54”. 2020

**A percentage of the sale goes towards supporting the nonprofit Anti-Violence Project.

FIELD NOTES

‘Eat Peach’ explores the contradictions within my identifying communities, of religious and queer, simultaneously expressing my difficulties in simple acts such as dating. A ‘breakthrough’ in regards to an acquired artistic skill of sewing, seaming for the first time plastic sheeting and canvas, and glass neon work. Produced through a scholarship to the Brooklyn glasswork community warehouse and education center, UrbanGlass, I blew and constructed the xenon filled tubing which drapes the upper righthand corner, immersing the painting in lavender, filtering from the back through the plastic. Dually filtering the light, the plastic ghosts and reveals the architecture of the tubing and stretcher bars, as a subtle metaphor for the unseen. Of constant motion, the lavender xenon separates and becomes mobile orbs in a one-way transit, varying in speed and direction.