Samuel Jayms Case 2025

Abstract

"Love Letters" is an exploration of queer hope and queer futurity. Using the writings of Edouard Glissant and Jose Esteban Munoz as its conceptual backing, the visual work combines drawing, plastic, wood, candles, and nylon cord to describe a private artist's hopes for the future. Lace becomes a metaphor for the ways that the patter of queer history is traced, interpreted, and passed along to future generations. Each piece is an epistolic portrait of someone who the artist hopes will be a part of their queer future.