PELLEJO MARIPOSA

Le Baccanti dir. Carlus Padrissa - Teatro Greco di Siracusa (2021)

San Sebastián. Saint Sebastien is often taken as a sort of gay saint, in large part because images of him are always so homoerotic. However, these images always feature him as a beautiful white youth. I decided to reimagine him as a black youth, pierced by arrows, to widen the idea of what the homoerotic image of Saint Sebastián can be (I also painted him as a trans man at one point, for the same reason). The idea is to widen art history, so as to be more inclusive, and to make a painting which reflects the suffering of queer POC, and with which we can identify. I also chose a model who did not have a slender and conventionally perfect body (although I think his body is beautiful), in order to widen the idea of gay male beauty, since Saint Sébastien is likewise usually painted as a muscular or slender youth. It is painted in watercolor on paper, and is available as a print in my etsy shop.   

while i’m posting, here’s promotional art i made for an event from saturday that the 2s collective i am a part of put on. info (incl dancers and djs whose likenesses i used) on instagram

Owl Dance, Sipisttoipasskaan (click for better quality)

Harley Quinn Pride: Two Spirit

Personalized textiles (such as huipiles) can have stories of folklore and history woven into them, but most often, they can tell your social status, such as how many animals you own, your marriage status, or other social standings. These clothes can be simple, or elaborate, but what matters is how we have kept these clothes for hundreds of years and how important these traditions are.

Personalized textiles (such as huipiles) can have stories of folklore and history woven into them, but most often, they can tell your social status, such as how many animals you own, your marriage status, or other social standings. These clothes can be simple, or elaborate, but what matters is how we have kept these clothes for hundreds of years and how important these traditions are.

Trique huipil, they look like jail clothing lol, funny that they are a quite agressive community

Guatemalan Huipil