Damron’s Address Book, 1978 (excerpt)

2025, 00:04:39 loop

A video work pairing gay bar names from the 1978 Damron’s Address Book with scrolling William Morris wallpaper patterns. The piece archives disappearing queer spaces from the year of the artist's birth, when gay identity carried different meanings than today. Morris’s anti-industrial, ornate designs parallel queer culture’s coded languages and domestic aesthetics. The ticker-tape format evokes both news and memorial, positioning the work within historical traditions of inscribing meaning onto surfaces while documenting the vanishing geography of queer community spaces.