We live in perilous times. There’s no sense pretending otherwise. …These artists, and many other gay creatives out there, inspire me to rage against the doom and gloom that could so easily drag me down into despondency.

i have a deep passion and love of still life paintings. They convey so much about humanity without a single human on the canvas. So i set out to paint a still life focused on one of my favorite subjects: a classic BIKE jockstrap.