Three new collages bring together kittens, an atomic mushroom cloud, and a man flexing his bicep.
The kittens come from paint-by-number canvases. The hobby began in the early 1950s and filled American homes with sentimental, domestic images..
The mushroom cloud comes from the same decade. It is the defining image of the Cold War, the threat that existed alongside postwar comfort.
The flexing man comes from social media today. He displays his strength in front of the blast.
Two recurring symbols complete each piece. The blue moon stands for desire and transformation. The Jupiter 3, the next version of the Jupiter, built for gay people, stands for freedom and movement.
Together the five elements form a sequence: comfort, threat, strength, desire, escape. The 1950s told men to protect the home and to fear what could destroy it. These collages place a contemporary gay man at the center of that picture and give him a ship to leave in
