Anthropomopolyology

 Anthropomopolyology is a custom screen-printed hanky and accompanying mini user manual. The project draws on the queer cruising "hanky code," a custom of wearing different colored bandanas to make specific sexual offers and requests. The original art for the hanky depicts a celebratory international gathering of thirteen anthropomorphized species whose scientifically-observed* romantic and sexual lives are queer as fuck. The project highlights the wide variety of ways both humans and animals can express relationships, throwing up a fabulously queer rebuttal to heteronormative ideas of what is "natural."

You can get a hanky and manual here. I am also planning a short video collaboration with the makers of Hanky Code: the Movie (to be completed when we can touch each other again.)

*chosen from 450 species detailed in Biological Exuberance, Bruce Begamihl's 1999 book surveying decades of field research.