graphite, paper, and wood on panel. 3.5' x 2.25' x 3". 2009 - 2019

Please note the initial image of the ‘Tea & Crumpets’/‘Eve’s Eden’ was originally a given high school assignment of human and graphite technique study, some 10 years later I now have a work that features a black woman. Understanding that her story is not mine to tell, which is why the proceeds are going to the proper nonprofits to support those communities, I also recognize that as a gay man my rights today came from the fight and lifework of Marsha P. Johnson. My hope has been to honor and acknowledge her story, and support the work that the Anti Violence Project serves to the New York black transgender community, and Color for Change for BIPOC.

**A percentage of the sale goes towards supporting the nonprofit Color for Change.

FIELD NOTES

Tea & Crumpets has been my first long term creation, revisiting the pieces over a ten year period. Exhibiting in multiple exhibitions, the most recent being the ‘Inside Job’ with Christie’s auction house, explores shifts in storylines. One of my first graphite works then evolved to find relation to a physical embodiment of heritage, lineage, a contexted timeline, letting the wood speak of its history alongside mine and the human species, and gay rights owed to black transgender women.