"I am letting this room and everything in it
stand for my ideas about love and its difficulties.  
And one day, when I need to tell myself 

something intelligent about love, I’ll close my eyes
and recall this room and everything in it"

            —Li-Young Li

 

“solace/multiplicity” is an attempt to understand my own conceptions of loving. It is light. It is a manifesto. It is fragile, it is strong, it is healing. It is for us. My hope is that in creating this dim, warm, and glowing space, viewers may move through their own reflections while informed by the environment and content of the lights. The poetry, images and excerpts on the pieces are fragments of a wider whole through which we may find something more like truth—something that reflects the varied and decidedly unique experience of queer love.

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I write, draw, and create in order to work through my emotions and experiences, often searching for an answer. Through this work, I have realized that there cannot be just one answer and that this must be a tool to understanding, rather than a barrier. Following the excerpt above, Young writes: "Now I’ve forgotten my idea... useless, / useless..." Through the process of searching, we oft forget what we set out to find. Intentionally fragmented, the work is an experiment in finding comfort in complexity—solace in multiplicity.