These works tell the story of the creation of queer love. Taking inspiration from the Greek Myth about the creation of soulmates, these pieces tell the story through a queer lens- framing queer love as Earth-changing, vibrant, and beautiful. Using figures that get progressively more and more ‘human’ in nature: forming faces, speech, and finally becoming ‘real life’: representing the journey many queer people take as they learn about themselves, and queer history.
The story begins with the ‘Children of the Sun, the Moon & the Earth’; with their four arms, legs, and two faces bound together. Their essences fill the universe, and they are consumed with each other. There is no need for love here, they have all they need in each other. But that cannot be- and forces outside of their control destroy them. In ‘the Destruction’ The Children are torn apart by Zeus’ bolt for being too powerful. He does not know this creates love, and the need for it in The Children.
As queer people, we are often alone for a lot of our lives, taking in pieces of people that make us feel more whole. ‘Your Feelings Are Deeper Than You Know’ represents gaining the knowledge queer kids need to survive- the knowledge that we are not alone, that people like us have lived and loved before, and we will live and love like they did. The Child internalizes it, but they are, in that moment, very alone in the universe.
Finally- two Children are reunited: the two halves reunite and find community with each other. They now radiate what alone Children will take in: creating a better, safer, and more whole universe. They’ve gained faces, scars, and shadow, representing a lived history and experiences only they know. We learn about those experiences through “Yes, Very.” Understanding the individual lives of queer people is a vital piece of a queer persons acceptance of themselves. Something the narrators in “Yes, Very” are beginning to grapple with.
Finally, the queer Child has evolved- they are now real, viewing the queer people of the past, and feeling the comfort of knowing they are not alone in the universe. They may not have found their other half yet, but they have found the beauty of community and queer life.
