How does being queer inform your work?

The aesthetics, the love of the male form and beauty.

What are your favorite pieces of queer visual culture?

Longhorns Dance by Colt (Jim French) from Manpower! issue 7, 1974. My Own Private Idaho (1991) by Gus Van Sant. Maurice (1987) directed by James Ivory, based on the 1971 novel Maurice by E. M. Forster. Ferzan Özpetek's movies: Magnifica Presenza, Le Fate Ignoranti, La Finestra di Fronte. Pedro Almodóvar's movies: Volver, Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, etc. Andy Warhol. Francis Bacon. Nan Goldin. Henry Scott Tuke. Pierre & Gilles. Mark Beard (born 1956 in Salt Lake City). Joseph Christian Leyendecker.

Which other queer people inspire you?

Da Vinci, Jim French, Oscar Wilde, Yoann Lemoine(Woodkid), David Hockney, Aubrey Beardsley. The City and the Pillar, the third published novel by American writer Gore Vidal.