Queer Cairns: A Marker of the Journey

What began as Pet Rocks, my soft-curved, biomorphic ceramic forms, have accumulated into a Queer Cairns—a totem for queer culture built through repetition, weight, and time. These forms are not simply rocks; they function as embodiments of queer bodies and beings. Through the act of stacking, I build ceramic cairns that mark the collective journeys of those who have moved through and across time on parallel paths.

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As cultural conditions shift—often in ways that feel regressive—these sculptures operate as markers of time and as vessels of queer joy, memory, and resilience. The Queer Cairn stands in quiet opposition to forces that seek to erase queer existence, offering instead a record of presence, survival, and connection.