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MAY QUEENS :: [2009]A series of digital prints worked into stencils focused on pattern, repetition, modular bodies. May queens are traditionally young girls chosen to represent a community in an annual ritual of fertility and rite of passage into spring. The may queens here were originally designed to celebrate the pagan and queer festival of Beltane. They are drag queens, butch queens, femme queens and gender queer creatures, multiplied and repeated. Painted on 9' x 5' canvas, these queens are neon banners of passion and delight, celebrations of the many ways we reproduce ourselves and find pleasure in moving through the world.
These banners were part of an installation at ida, a queer land project, and used in the shooting in the film project "Something With A Little Poison In It,"
or "Surrender: Dorothy," a queer pornographic retelling / recontextualization of the Wizard of Oz. 
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