My work is a chronicle of, and counter-position to, the tragicomic aspects of my personal history. The basis of my work is a symbolic lexicon I have derived from social politics, art history, and pop-culture. I explore cognitive dissonance theory, love-based philosophies, and theories of social-group identity. At an intersection of these theoretical points of departure, I excavate personal narratives of toxic masculinity and male violence glimpsed through a queer, sex-worker lens. Through painting, writing, and multimedia responses, I reflect on historical violence in the context of masculine identities in a Western framework and encapsulate such identities in exploration of imagination and romance, capitalism, and autobiographical narratives; ultimately arriving at the unbearable contradictions that we, nevertheless, struggle to bear concerning encounters with others, ourselves, and the world. I generate dynamic and uncanny figurative compositions populated with comic relief, erotica, pornography, contemporary politics, and references to contemporary queer culture. These manifest in paintings, books of poetry, novels, and as of late, marble sculpture.