Partition (Portal), 2025. Copper-foil stained glass, paint, patina, wood, LED, acrylic, wood stain.
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Finished my light box! And repainted centre panel! And added a parenthesis to the title!
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okay I’ll stop posting the same piece now 🙂↕️
📣Two exciting updates: I’ve launched my substack (free btw) with the goal of sharing writing at least once per month, starting with my first musings about the state of Toronto’s art sector and discussing imagination as resistance with Ursula K Le Guin’s fiction!📣
I’ve also redone my website, all up to date. Both are linked in my bio! Please check them out & share my post or subscribe to my substack if you are interested! 🔗
📸 Cover photo by Laura Honsberger
Twice as many stars as usual, 2025. Copper-foil stained glass, inkjet print on transparency, stainless steel chain.
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took some nicely lit photos thanks to @celldriver ‘s photo tent
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“Tomorrow when the farm boys find this
freak of nature, they will wrap his body
in newspaper and carry him to the museum.
But tonight he is alive and in the north
field with his mother. It is a perfect
summer evening: the moon rising over
the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there
are twice as many stars as usual.”
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this poem by Laura Gilpin inspired this stained-glass devotional object to a freak of nature.
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this polycephalic goat is taxidermied at @natural_selections in downtown Toronto
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🌈 Thrilled to be featured in “Pride in Craft 2025: This Way Forward” from @craftontario , showcasing my cast iron syringe & other recent works amongst 6 other contemporary queer artists.
“Through project research, DeCoste has found a lack of historically documented trans semiotics and trans-inclusive ecologies. These gaps in reference material have been a catalyst for them to build works as an ongoing archive of their transition and queer life. They have solidified a syringe used to inject HRT into cast iron, and with the appearance of a salvaged item, this work has become an artefact forged from their time of struggling to access gender-affirming care”
🔗 Read the full feature at the link in @craftontario bio.
📸 Photos and writing by Laura Honsberger @__honsberger__
this week is your last chance to see my solo show, Transfigurations”, at @spacemaker2 ! Open tonight and next Friday July 28th 7-10pm! You can also DM @spacemaker2 to make an appointment!
I’m super proud of this work, it delves into my gender queerness and trans-masculinity using semiotics and symbolic language!
Thank you to Caroline ( @chairoline_art ) and @spacemaker2 for having me in your space 🤍
First photo taken by @pa____ula !
Excited to announce that I will be presenting my body of work TRANSFIGURATIONS at Spacemaker II from JUNE 23 until JULY 21.
OPENING NIGHT will be FRIDAY JUNE 23, 7pm.
I will be showing textiles created in banff during my winter 2023 residency, as well as some new multimedia works that build on those themes.
save da date & stay tuned 4 more info 🧚🏻
About TRANSFIGURATIONS:
Transfigurations explores material transformation as both a process and metaphor. I combine natural materials, recognizable queer symbols, and references to Hal Fischer’s “Gay Semiotics” to embed queer flagging semiotics within religious aesthetics in order to complicate narratives around ritual, reverence, and identity.
My cyanotype handkerchief shown in “Dimensions of Toronto: Looking Otherwise with with Nature”, curated by Mason Smart (@secularsacredheart ). This window box show includes @carrierbagcollective folks at the Window Box Gallery over at Gallery 1313 on Queen St W!
Today is #transdayofvisibility so I am sharing my second project @banffcentre , which was born out of the first. While looking at gay semiotic histories I wondered why there seemed to be no documentation of similar symbolic language around transness. by combining existing symbolic language with a new iconography of the snail shell, I wanted to gesture towards a new symbolic language with its roots in a queer ecological framework, a language that would connect nature and queerness, specifically a trans centred queerness.
Today I wanna remind everyone that visibility without protection is a death sentence. That trans people have a long history of existence in multitudes of cultures. And that colonialism was the driving force behind transphobia and trans erasure. As a trans masculine person I am at the very start of my journey through the inner world of gender. To my trans siblings, I send love and wishes for your peace and safety. To everyone else I hope you help move towards a world where trans people are safe, celebrated, and loved for our truth(s)
The text on this piece is from MUTABILITY AND MUTUALISM from the institute for post-natural studies.
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Install photos from my Open Studio at the @banffcentre . My centrepiece, “Transfiguration I (Shroud)” hangs centre in the first photo. Thank you to everyone at the Banff Centre, and all my peers, for a transformative 5 weeks of creation.
Detail shots to come ⛰
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First week @banffcentre residency filling me up with inspiration, possibility and beautiful views of the Rockies from Sleeping Buffalo Mountain.
Exploring queer ecology in my work here. Stay tuned🌳
