The color of your flowers is a journey through portraiture and storytelling based on the lives of queer individuals as they navigate the nuances and complexities of living with HIV. This body of work considers modes of image-making and conversation for their creative and collaborative possibilities: as generative resources, as channels for self and collective nurturance, as shared acts of radical intimacy.

Using image, text, audio and archival material, this work looks closely into selfhood through the everyday; dwellings, visual or written journals, pill bottles, medical records, and other personal objects inform one’s unique experience and memory of carrying on to live with HIV. Both images and dialogue touch upon points of introspection, inquiry and disclosure, the latter serving as the familiar force that can complicate or elevate one’s livelihood. The color of your flowers is tender in its unveiling, and serves to be a poignant reminder of cultivating peace, pleasure and freedom within and beyond the burden of
lived experience.