I paint Latinx, white, and Native American imagery as part of my own heritage. However, my work also speaks to the broader queer community, and I often paint ethnicities, genders, and manifestations of queerness other than my own. I try to focus on a variety of body types and ages, and in short, to look for and represent the beauty and breadth of the queer community. To do so, I seek out models from the different communities I represent, ask to hear their ideas and learn how they wish to see themselves represented, and ask permission to tell their stories and paint their fantasies. My work is thus a collaborative effort.

I am enraptured by various art-historical styles, such as vintage children’s book illustration, golden-era comics, and Japanese printmaking. In my work, I attempt to make the illusion of antiquity complete, using vintage papers and careful research as to costume, set, and style. My goal is perfect verisimilitude. I treat vintage illustrative styles as a rhetorical strategy, using their language of romance, economic power, and aesthetic sensibility as a tool with which to tell stories of historically oppressed and marginalized queer communities.