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Hot Pants Manifesto

Gaze through my polynoculars to see a future world emerging from the ruins of heteronormative limitations, transformed over eons of volcanic time. In this queer ecotopia the genderless folks who wear hot pants and prophetic body art will be engineering a city-sized earth ship on our island that was once a mountaintop. These descendant artifacts tell a story of queer escape, protection, and ultimately renewal on the dynamic landscape of an evolving earth. Armed with pentadyke pocketgasms and handmade unmaking tools, we are finding communities in the mountains where the queer future lies restless. Expressive clothing is a living artifact of our movement, indicating queerness as a guide for survival through change.

Hot Pants
Cast aluminum
19" x 15" x 4"
Hot Pants
Cast Aluminum
18" x 15" x 3"
Well Hung Up
Cast aluminum
2019
Hot Pants
Cast aluminum, original hardware, pigment
15" x 13" x 9"
2020
Credit Karma Axe
Cast iron
2018
Shell Phone
Cast aluminum
2018
Polynoculars
Cast aluminum
2019
Pockets (The Things We'll Carry Will Carry Us)
Cast aluminum, original hardware, pigment
2020
Hot Pants
Cast aluminum
2018
Hot Pants (detail)
Cast aluminum
2018