In the following thesis, I weave together the threads of queerness, futurity, longing and belonging through the lens of construction. In writing, drawing, photography and sculpture, I explore the materialization of an inner, queer utopia. Grounded in José Esteban Muñoz’s theory of queer futurity as a “forward-dawning” horizon and Ursula K. Le Guin’s concept of interior revolution, I propose studio practice as a site of radical reconstruction. At the core of this spatial and conceptual inquiry is the framework of an active construction site. At once mundane, ubiquitous, and world-shaping, I posit that construction is inherently queer - as unstable and unfixed, a site of continual becoming.

These concepts culminate in my solo exhibition The Moon Went With Her in Experimental Gallery. A shifting landscape of thread like light beams, site-specific wall drawings, and perforated ceramic assemblages, the gallery installation invited viewers to experience the activity and constant change of the construction site itself. This thesis demonstrates how a queer aesthetic provides the blueprints for a future yet to arrive, utilizing artistic practice as a “purple crayon” to invent the conditions of one’s own belonging.