It’s the material that people like my uncle we’re influenced by. So that’s why I work predominantly with this material, it’s kind of like a stand in portrait. When he was coming of age in the late seventies, early eighties. And so that’s why I turned to images of vintage gay pornography because these are images that sort of informed his own identity growing up. I didn’t have any pictures of my uncle,I had to sort of think about how could I tell that story without pictures of him because there were no family photos after he died. So that’s sort of eraser in my family history really, it became this catalyst for making new work that gave a voice to people like my uncle who were silenced and who were forgotten. And so when he died, it was kind of like he didn’t exist in the family. So I was born at the height of the AIDS crisis and my uncle passed away from complications of HIV when I was three years old. For some people, the source material may be a little shocking, but your final products are very removed from its original intent.
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