Queer Silence
Created: 2025
Medium: Digital collage (PowerPoint)
Categorie(s): We Are One
Artist Note
This piece names a truth many queer people know well: silence is rarely gentle. It is enforced, demanded, policed. It is the pressure to shrink, to soften, to stay “acceptable” enough for a world that still fears what it cannot control.
Here, the eyes remain exposed—alert, unhidden, refusing to look away. But the mouth is bound in rainbow: the irony of being both celebrated and censored, colorful yet contained. This is the kind of silence that doesn’t protect; it erases.
And still, the colors push through. They always do.
“Queer Silence” is a reminder that even when our voices are dismissed or denied, our truth refuses to disappear.
The question is: What happens when the silence finally breaks?
This piece is a living work. What you see here is one version in time.