The Personals is an ongoing collage series made from LGBTQ+ archival material from 1966 - 1981 and inspired by the text of contemporaneous found LGBTQ+ personal ads and their authors. The works explore how the times they lived in, and the media they consumed, shaped their psyches and hopes for connection in the pre-digital era.

The development of this series has been supported by a MacDowell Fellowship in visual arts and artist residencies at Chicago Artists Coalition, Latitude, and Ragdale, as well as grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the city of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCASE).