What message do you hope your work sends to other queer kinky people, especially those just starting to explore? My work is ultimately a love letter to queer kinky people, especially those just starting to explore. I want it to say: you are not alone. There’s power and beauty in discovering your desires, even if the world tries to shame them. I hope my art gives permission to feel, to want, and to play without apology.

Recently, I exhibited my art piece, “The Fuckball,” at a festival, and it was destroyed. For those of you who don’t know what this is, I am an artist, and I created a 6-foot-tall, colorful, latex inflatable ball covered in 12 penetrable vulvas (and one not-so-secret butthole). The Fuckball represents the objectification of female sexuality, but it has multiple layers of meaning and has existed in a variety of forms as a piece of art.