Robert Martin
Spotting Spirals Amidst the Symmetry
2024
Oil on Panel
35 x 28 cm - 14 x 11 inch
A driving intention of their work is to demonstrate a reality of queerness within rural spaces in order to combat the insidious notions that queerness is somehow unnatural, unprecedented and thus unwelcome.
‘Many of my compositions are translated from incomplete memories of a childhood spent in the woods and waters of Wisconsin. I’m constantly steered by my obsessive sentimentality toward my childhood, whether it's through the particular narratives I lived, or the visual aesthetics of those foundational settings.’
Robert Martin
2024
Oil on Panel
35 x 28 cm - 14 x 11 inch