The Unknowing...X

Over the years I have amassed a huge dressing up box, accumulated from different parts of my life –gender bender to boxer, drag queen to leather queen, AIDS patient to University Professor, son to Daddy! Now as I approach my sixth decade I’m reflecting on past lives and the unknown of the future. Dipping into the adult dressing up box to create new and potentially different roles. All the time playing with gender, identity, sexuality, masculinity, and everything in between. HIV+ since 1994, on medication and Undetectable. Although the world is waking up slowly to Undetectable equals Untransmissable (U=U), stigma still remains, needing to be challenged. These ideas may hang around in the background of the images, as the subconscious thoughts in my head but the work is about still being here and thinking of what next, about living and having fun! The X of Unknowing...can be a kiss from me to you, a reference to non-binary, non-gendered specific pronouns, or referring to an undetermined space, both literally and metaphorically. This new series is all about play, performing for the camera, of Unthinking in a space of creative Unknowing. An exciting place where anything can happen and nothing is predetermined, where there is everything to look forward to.