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Queer for Fear
Archival Print

For the commissioned cover of Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator, Amie riffed off Herman Henstenburgh’s public domain painting Vanitas Still Life, which is part of the Memento Mori art tradition that represents death and the beauty of our fragile life.

To visualize the concepts of queerness, horror, and film, Amie integrated flowers that have meaning to and representation for the queer community around a skull on a classic red velvet movie theatre seat, with a spilled popcorn bucket representing the joy and revelry that happens when queer people come together.

This print has a thin white border and is printed on a smooth matte paper using with an eleven-color high definition ink process. Ships flat in protective sleeve.

Size: 8" x 10"
$25.00

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Amie Pascal is an Oregon-based artist whose work is in continual conversation with the paths from life to death, from seasonal flowers to chronic illness, to make sense of humanity and her place in it.

For the commissioned cover of Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator, Amie riffed off Herman Henstenburgh’s (Dutch, 1667–1726) public domain painting Vanitas Still Life, which is part of the Memento Mori art tradition that represents death and the beauty of our fragile life.

To visualize the concepts of queerness, horror, and film, Amie integrated flowers that have meaning to and representation for the queer community around a skull on a classic red velvet movie theatre seat.

Violets were included as a longtime symbol of sapphic / lesbian love.

Green carnations have long been a visual identifier for gay men, a signifier started by our gay elder Oscar Wilde.

Pansies represent the history of queer resilience and reclamation. Lavender is a symbol of queer resistance.

And roses are for our beautiful trans siblings.

The snuffed-out candle stands in for all of our queer elders and trans siblings who we have lost to violence, neglect, and illness. A spilled popcorn bucket shows raucous queer joy—the chaos and revelry that happens when queer people come together.

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