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Frankie Pittorf
My work explores the intertwining relationships between identity, adolescence, and everyday objects. Toys, childhood drawings, and memories combine to create visual narratives, materializing my past to examine my present. Reconstructing these elements in functional forms push the boundaries between utility and play, acting as a tool to further examine relationships they share with gender, sexuality, and queer identity. Breaking these components down and re-examining them in a new lens, offer space for new meaning and queer possibilities. Collectively, these works become an act of reclamation and reconciliation of my inner child and allow space for queer expression and affirmation.
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