The “PrEParedness Series” is a collection of digitally generated and printed textile patterns proposing a new relationship between the visual culture of rural culture and queerness. Using the images of camouflage and PrEP (the colloquial name for the medication Truvada), the project consists of a series of patterns that can function as a new coded language for rural queer men or as a tool for passing in a heteronormative environment.
As a physical extension of the “PrEParedness Series”, the installation and sculpture “Hunt, Hide, Hey!” is a riff on commercial retail language as an access point for the consumption of visual culture and coded language. The patterns created as part of the “PrEParedness Series” are made into undergarments, suit and jacket linings, dress shirts, ties, and accessories available for seamless grassroots integration into a rural population accompanied by the language and academic discourse that fail to recognize the same rural, queer identities.
