Aberration Centric
Kate Logie
2026
Acrylic on canvas
The large green carnation I have centralised is based in queer history. It became a queer symbol in 1892 when Oscar Wilde instructed a handful of his friends to wear them on their lapels to the opening night of his comedy Lady Windermere's Fan. Wearing a green carnation on your lapel was a secret, subtle hint that you were a man who loved other men.
Aberration Centric is a piece I have done to show the emotions of floating or falling, whichever the viewer perceives the piece as.
It is about gender fluidity and the beauty this holds. I have attempted to mix up the view of genders with a male chest showing and the flowing female form with curves.
The face is either relaxed floating high with their feelings or in a state of sleep to show the effect of “giving up” and falling.
The water represents the turbulence queer people face throughout their lives.
