This is a ritual, Espinoza says, for 'binding the sadness of Our queer bodies to the queer literary bodies' of queer artists who lost their lives to persecution, erasure, disease, suicide, closets, and forgetting.
Espinoza's artwork combines photography, embroidery, performance art, and other approaches to honor our dead and to 'translate' queer bodies 'into an offering for the Ancestors by becoming a landscape depicting the future,' they write.
During the COVID pandemic, Espinoza explored the concept 'strategies for survival' by making works that reflected themes of community activism, the resilience of queer embodiment, and a distrust of public health institutions.
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