title: drawn from the depths

media: ceramics, crochet, poetry

dimensions: 18” x 18” x 6”

year: 2024

context: both a chess set and a series of poems meant to be read while playing the game, ‘drawn from the depths’ explores queer kinships with deep sea creatures through play, strategy, and imagined intimacies. if kings are brine pools and bishops are humpbacks, what queer nothings might they whisper to each other as they await the next move?