Dusty Rose is the culminating show and book release of a Queer Color Series that began 3 years ago with a group show for ACP at Mammal Gallery. This work explores themes of queerness, depression, suicidal ideation, isolation and loneliness. It’s about existential crises. It’s about gender identity and sexual identity. It’s about being on the spectrum.

My photographic series delves into my queer identity through color swatches. Each image uses a single color swatch to create a world with its own landscapes, its own characters, its own patterns. As an interior designer, I constantly peruse color fan decks and exuberant patterns. From a single color swatch, I will find or construct outfits, background, and props to compose an alternative world.

I like playing with color, because I feel so uncomfortable in color. My personal palette of clothes is progressively more monochromatic - even the spaces I live in shift to grayscale. But when I photograph myself, I explore a whole other world.

Together as a culmination of images, each its own monochromatic portrayal of a color, they form a spectrum of colors - a rainbow. Each photograph is a single moment in time captured, a glimpse at who this character is - but together they form a more complete idea of this person, me.