sometimes like butterflies

2021

sometimes like butterflies is a body of work created for Edward's Master's Thesis Project at Rhode Island School of Design. The work builds upon his previous work in Friend of Dorothy, exploring the queer body's relationship to rural and natural environments through ceramics, printmaking, painting, and performance. 

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Nest Performance
Performed with ceramic headpiece, confetti, honey, mason jar, and cattails from Ohio​

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later additions to the series

 2021-23

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an ode to builders and carpenter bees, Stone lithograph on cotton mounted to washi with gouache, colored pencil, pastel, and collaged etching and aquatints, 22 x 24 in, 2021-23

Jock Among the Grass
4 Color Etching, aquatint and collagraph
​9 x 12 in
2022 

Hole in Tree
Hand-colored etching 
4 x 4 in Tondo
​2023

Nail and Bark
Stone lithograph on handmade washi
​9 x 12 in
2021 

Tree Hole
Oil paint, air-dry clay, aluminum wire on white stone- ware
2021
​9 x 7 x 2.5 inches 

Just Between Us
Egg tempera, acrylic, and air-dry clay on muslin mounted to panel
8 x 8.5 x 3 in 
2021