NICHOLAS DEMERS FANCY HANDKERCHIEF 2021 24 x 24” Media: Mixed-media, wall-hanging sculpture. https://www.instagram.com/a.creative.nicholas/ ARTIST BIO Nicholas Demers was introduced to Art Therapy after the loss of his mother at age 7. It became a tool he used to navigate through the various traumas of living as a queer kid in the early eighties.
PROJECT STATEMENT We have been fed the idea since birth that our genders have assigned and appropriate likes and dislikes. Pink vs. Blue, Trucks vs. Ponies, She-Ra vs. He-Man. Demers recalls, “I remember being devastated every time I went to the dentist. We got Styrofoam airplanes after our visit ‘cause we were boys. Right next to the jar of ugly paper plane packages, was a dish of sparkly and colourful plastic costume rings of which I wasn’t allowed to pick from. This piece is a result of a lifetime full of these moments.”
SILENT AUCTION OPENING BID = $800
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