Initially inspired by PROTECT AND SURVIVE – a British Government public information campaign during the Cold War – Parham is feeling his way into the expanded painting to explore the intersection of animation and commercial graphics with queerness, resistance, failure, and love. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀

“…queer inevitably means making familial bonds through camp and community or that it relies on replication, recruitment, and righteousness rather than reproduction and assimilation.” ⠀