CULTURAL SEDIMENTS

In Cultural Sediments, I construct layered collages on painted grounds that evoke the weathered surfaces of urban walls. Working with repurposed vintage gay adult magazine imagery, I tear, abrade, and stain each element so that figures emerge in states of partial erosion—marked by time, environment, and cycles of removal. This process mirrors the accumulation and decay of cultural memory, tracing shifting ideals of masculinity within the gay community and the persistent nostalgia attached to earlier archetypes of the idealized male body. By translating once-private images of desire into surfaces that recall public urban remnants, the work considers how identity, beauty, and history are continually constructed, circulated, and worn away.

Works are presented chronologically, from newest to oldest, left to right.
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