I have been generally inspired by something artist Gregg Bordowitz once said in one of his videos: that he wants to map his own private cosmology, to unpack who he is and where he comes from. Hearing this articulated so perfectly everything I want to do in my own art: I want to unpack who I am: what informs me artistically, socially, intellectually. But I want to do more than merely discover and unpack. I want to conflate and confuse my surroundings and my inspirations and my thoughts. I don’t want merely to elucidate them, I want to become them; I want to superimpose my mundane life onto the grand narratives of the lives that I have been taught about and read about.
I avow the use of camp as the means and the end of this transformatory process; camp provides a theoretical bridge between my subject’s world and mine, a means to collapse and fold the iconic into my own personal vernacular, and also to project my persona onto larger public cosmologies. Generally speaking, my work is a deconstruction (or, perhaps more aptly, a reconstruction) of my own life; it is a document of my relationships, and an attempt to create a kind of philosophy of my queerness.
