Mano y Mano - Aleo Landeta Castro Untitled Portrait #2

Untitled Portrait #2

From Jones’ piece in The Gay Highwayman:

Keep your noggin warm

the public pissoirs

Allow yourself any multi-layered meanings of your own understanding of submitting

Mano y Mano - Aleo Landeta Castro Untitled Portrait #2Soft pastel and pencil on paper, wood mounted 24x30 Artist Statement: Mano y Mano was made as a meditation on gay PDA, grief, collective holding, and the path towards liberation. The piece was inspired by a quote found on Queering the Map posted from Palestine: "I've always imagined you and me sitting out in the sun, hand and hand, free at last. We spoke of all the places we would go if we could. Yet you are gone now. If I had known that bombs raining