Appalachia—-a landscape, a community, and a home to millions—-is outcast from the rest of America due to the presences of the “hillbilly” stereotype. Ideas of wild, unkempt, uneducated, inbred people keep non-Appalachian Americans away. Queerness, similarly, is treated as a disease or an “aberration of nature” by cisgender, heteronormative society. In the center of the Venn diagram are queer Appalachians, who are left out of conversations in both Queer and Appalachian Studies.

Untitled (Queer in Appalachia) is a series of cyanotypes depicting photograms of native plants, contact prints of queer Appalachians and Appalachian landscapes, and blackout poems detailing queer experiences in Appalachia, all on ripped pages of a book about the mountains of North Carolina.