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 2023 Individual Artist Support grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a 2023 Individual Artists Program grant from the city of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), and a 2024 MacDowell Fellowship in Visual Arts. I worked on this series during my 2024 Artist Residency at Latitude Chicago.