Elaine Adams

My work attempts to describe a form of mindful masculinity that I associate with my butch lesbian identity. Being so removed from a traditional boyhood makes me romanticize it. How do I stop mourning what I never had? My sentimentality and idealized image of boyhood glosses over its complications. I ache to experience the world through a lens of masculine naivety. I want to reclaim my boyhood! I want to be dirty and grimy and my knees to be scraped. I want a little box to carry around that I fill within minutes of being outside. Boys are selfish, boys are violent, I can’t help but to want just a taste of it. I am fascinated by boys because of their masculinity and frustrated at their misuse of it. I want to make sense of my world, I want to know why I see myself reflected in the places that I do. Each object, each piece that I add to this collection helps me make sense of my own identity. I am creating my own space, I want to be a Boy on my own terms.
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