Untitled (Wait ’Til Your Father Gets Home) was developed as part of a body of research that seeks to address the physical and temporal breaks in kinship between the “lost generation” of artists and gay men who died during the height of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, and contemporary queer artists. The project engages archival research, personal associations of family and kinship, and the art historical trope of the momento mori, to re-establish points of connection.

With reference to Félix Gonzàlez-Torres’ Untitled (Perfect Lovers), this work explores other kinds of non-romantic, same-sex love that class and time have made difficult and left unacknowledged. The images depict the artist holding the watches worn by his father and grandfather. Each image is printed to scale the watchfaces to wall clock size, with an excess of paper that flows and rolls like a watch strap. The work holds the care and veneration of objects sometimes typical of working class men, and exists in patriarchal time. The title carries both the weight of mourning and the implicit threat of violence; the matriarchal voice that doubles and empties patriarchal time in working class homes.

Poster inkjet prints. 40cm x 40cm image on 84.1cm x 118.9cm paper, x2. Unlimited edition.