AN ELABORATE ATTEMPT AT SIDESTEPPING COMPLETE AND TOTAL BLANKNES

CHAINS THAT BIND

2023

48" × 60"

Oil on Canvas

Working off of the name CHAINS THAT BIND, this painting was an exploration into the bonds between queer people.

Bonds forged from struggle and hardship, the molten steel has hardened into a chain that will not be broken.

Queer folk are often likened to animals by those who do not understand the nuances of gender identity. In perhaps an effort to reclaim what is used to demean, there is a large overlap between the queer community and furries. Put eloquently by music artist Patricia Taxxon, in a video essay titled "On the Ethics of Boinking Animal People," she spits back at those who have ridiculed her for engaging in the furry community and her nonhuman identity. "You treated me like an animal all of my life, why are you surprised I like being one?"

ferris.gif - Art By: Ray Larabie - Found on the Avatar Archive, posted 6/22/1992.

This image was posted with the following text:

< ECHIDNA DISCIPLE >

Witch from the Carmine Marsh Kingdom practicing the path of the “Echidna Disciple”, which demands intense ritual meditation on the mutability of the self and the perfection of the Godhead Mother in her Destroyer Aspect. 

At the deepest point of ego suppression (The “God Head World”) witches tap into a wellspring of righteous hatred - grasping the form of this hatred and becoming one with the principle allows them to return to the surface reality (The “Death’s Head World”) as a conduit for Echidna force, manifesting the most profound elements of the self in incarnate flesh. 

Rudolf Stingel

Untitled, 2012

oil and enamel on canvas