Bygone Butch [in octaptych] is a piece that emerges from my ongoing exploration of gay male visual imagery, queer archetypal lineage, and soft interventions into masculinity’s self-styled hardness. By putting these figures into a spatial community, I am meditating on the nature of queer identity, opening questions about how each person concocts their queerness from a unique combination of action, desire, culture, history, intersecting identity, self-image, and public persona. Firmly rooting itself in gay male history and borrowing heavily from religious imagery like the stations of the cross, this piece evokes the feeling of each moment it captures as it deifies its subjects and their sacred figures.