Making This House a Lesbian Home

45 × 95 × 50”, mixed media installation (standing lamp, LED lightbulb, wire, cotton twill tape, cotton, bleach, fabric dye, fabric glue, lace, pearl beaded trim, fringe trim, wooden stretchers, acrylic paint and oil paint on primed canvas, nails, 3M velcro, painters tape), 2026.

This installation grew from the feeling of familiarity I experienced when viewing Kiss and Tell’s Drawing the Line series. The imagery I “painted” on the lampshade (paint, as in bleach and dye on cotton) is reproduced from their series. I was interested in extending their collaborative process by creating an intergenerational continuum of queer resistance; Making This House a Lesbian Home moves between Kiss and Tell's practice, to my living room, to OCAD as a site. As I explored the material distinctions and overlapping between craft and fine art, I became interested in the conceptual distinctions and overlapping of private and public. Highlighting private space within public space made me consider the political nature of the queer/ lesbian homeplace. To expand the private, queers the public.

Drawing the Line: https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/kiss-tell/key-works/drawing-the-line/