My "Down South" art series comments on class and regional differences within LGBT+ communities. Queer abstraction as an artistic genre is often presented as universal, which overlooks barriers and biases related to class, education, geography, and gender.

Inspired by books like "The Un-Natural State" (2010) and "Men Like That" (1999), as well as my own upbringing in rural Arkansas, this series utilizes specifically coded materials such as concrete, quilts, cigarette butts, and mesh tank tops to explore queer resistance and ingenuity in rural spaces. Pieces from this series have been featured in Redefining and Reclaiming the Body (2021) at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, KS and Growing Up Queer in the South (2022) at the Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville, NC. Most recently, I participated in the Delta Triennial Exhibition (2024) at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock, AR.