Let Us Play Mural

As part of the PaintBox program at Boston’s Office of Arts and Culture, I painted a city electrical box. In Boston’s Jamaica Plain Neighborhood, I created an artwork celebrating the different ways folks play in a city. Some suburbanites consider skating, tagging and hooping a nuisance, but urban play like this takes up space and creates spontaneous vitality in a city.

Lavender Rhino Mural

A forgotten Boston queer symbol, a city electrical box

As part of the PaintBox program at Boston’s Office of Arts and Culture, I painted a city electrical box. When creating this design, I drew from symbols of queer resiliency throughout history. I wanted to create a public, permanent queer artwork in the city. Even in a liberal city like Boston, many in my queer family feel uncomfortable in Boston’s public spaces. I chose the historic imagery of the Lavender Rhino from The History Project archives to celebrate all things queer, tough, and joyful.