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God-Shaped Hole is currently developing project which explores the connections between the queer body, spirituality, and nature through maiolica painting and performance. Generously funded through the Rhode Island School of Design's SPUR Fund, the project began by researching works of art in Italy from Rome to Faenza, visiting holy sites, seeking inspiration from work that visually depicts the body in relation to nature. Additionally, I studied maiolica painting as an artist-in-residence at the Faenza Art Ceramic Center. Maiolica refers to the white-glazed pottery of the Italian Renaissance where the style was popularized, with major centers of production in Deruta, Faenza, and Florence. See below for small works I created while in residency. The visual and material research done in Italy will conclude in an installation where I will include converting a Box Blind hunting stand into a queer chapel by dressing the interior of the structure with printed fabric and ceramic sculptures. The time in Italy exploring religious sites and chapels has informed how I will re-imagine this rural and masculine space into something new. More specifically, I am interested in the tension created by concealability experienced by queer people to maintain safety and how this relates to nature’s many forms of camouflage and protection.
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The process for developing the patterns for the installation began with copperplate etchings that were hand-colored and then digitized into a pattern. 
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