Caffyn Kelley: Queer Images

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Many of my images explore the meanings and resonances of gay and lesbian identity. I have also developed these ideas in writing. You can read my work and see more images at  www.queermap.com.

As I hope to advance a profusion of queer culture, I am happy to have these images distributed to others. If credited properly (© Caffyn Kelley) and linked to www.queermap.com, these images can be reproduced without charge. High-quality .TIFFs are also available from me for reproduction at no charge. Please let me know if you use these images by writing to me at cjk at saltspring.com.

© Caffyn Kelley, Lovers and Fish: Turning, Returning, 20" x 53", bench cover

This piece is from a series in which I explore affinities between same-sex lovers and salmon.

Like salmon, we journey home, against the current and against the odds.

 

© Caffyn Kelley,

Earth Icon: Friendship

fabric applique, 16" x 24"

In each lesbian and gay person there is a spirit that cannot shine in the dead forms and obligatory gestures of nuclear family life. While family binds us to service, friendship is "a boundless desire."

 

 

 

© Caffyn Kelley, Earth Icon: The Lesbian Body, fabric applique, 16" x 24" The lesbian body poses an alternative to the sex-gender system. We refuse its processes and values.