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Hey! My name is Dyson / Ryan. I am an artist from

Birmingham and my work is about my personal

experience of queerness in a heteronormative

world. As I see queerness to be abject to our

hetero-dominated society, I usually present it as a

critique of such. Embracing imperfect, honest

sexiness, bright pink and tinfoil. Expressing my

thoughts and feelings along my journey to Plutopia

– A kind of kinky, all-loving heaven I have devised.

This piece titled ‘EINS’, slightly removed from

the Plutopian narrative I usually play with, is the

first of a series of images I produced as an

extension to Hal Fischer’s work on gay semiotics

from the 1970s. I highly recommend reading

though his book! He helped to popularise the

hankey code. This series of work is accompanied

with an essay exploring the cultural and political

context in which Fischer lived and how it affected

his work. The essay can be found on my website

ryanasbury.co.uk.

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