00:00This next performer is not just a drag queen, honey, she is my sister.
00:04I can't even explain how fabulous she is. Give it up for Untitled Queen, honey.
00:09When I was in my teen years and I was already, you know, I was already out and I'd help
00:15my sister shop,
00:16I was always kind of looking for things like, oh my gosh, if I was gonna wear something, I'd be
00:20wearing this.
00:21And that is the kind of thing I buy now. That's the kind of look often.
00:26Like, it's these kind of fantasies of things that I always thought about at that time.
00:33I used to say that about certain drag queens and think of the generation or my generation.
00:37It's like they're often their teen dream of things that they couldn't do or kind of wanted to do.
00:44And then now just like unleashed.
00:47So it's like often I feel like you see these like versions of 16 year old goth girls or in
00:53my case,
00:54some sort of Harajuku, messed up girl like walking around all the time.
01:00I think that's often the source of it.
01:08What was really interesting when I first started doing drag, I was very, I don't know, for some reason really
01:15adamant being like,
01:16this is different than my artwork.
01:18Like, they don't go together.
01:21They don't know the same things.
01:23It's like wasn't considered.
01:24I kind of really kept them apart.
01:26And then when I thought about it, drag is so much, it's exactly the way that I make art.
01:33It's, it's a prop, meaning a sculpture and a soft sculpture and a costume and a performance.
01:42And the whole, the way that I think and process doing drag is the same way that I make art.
01:48It's all these sort of interdisciplinary bits and pieces that come together to make a whole experience.
01:54It's interesting like looking back on some of the drawings and things that I've done before.
01:59And they, in many ways, it's always just kind of ideas that I've been thinking about forever and ever.
02:05And I was like, finally drag was a way to make them realized in real life.
02:11I was like, I can do this tonight.
02:12I can make this huge wig or I can make this like marching band hat or whatever I wanted.
02:19So, the drawings became almost like blueprints for, or tests for how looks could be and vice versa.
02:26Then I became like inspired by looking at some of the outfits I made and trying to make them into
02:30drawings.
02:31So, they're pretty cyclical the way that it comes about.
02:38My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
02:46He is trampling of the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
02:54He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword.
03:03His truth is marching on.
03:14I think what took me apart as a drag scene is sort of the way I tell, use drag as
03:23a way to tell stories.
03:26And no matter what it is.
03:28And I think through a sort of artistic thing and sort of a construction.
03:33I feel like each song is almost like a little play.
03:37And like taking it that way with like a costume, an actor, a script, a story.
03:43And I think that's how I approach each one.
03:46I used to always ask people, oh, maybe I'll do a slow song for this.
03:50I used to ask advice about some people like, oh, no, don't ever, don't do that.
03:53No one wants to do that.
03:54No one wants to hear a slow song right now.
03:56It's like such a downer.
03:57And I was like, no, but this will be good.
03:59And then when I finally stopped listening to all that noise and I was like, no,
04:02I'm just going to do it because I think it's right for right now.
04:05And that's what I want to do.
04:06And that's, that's what I serve.
04:09That's the kind of, um, I say this sort of melancholy joy fantasy.
04:13That's the kind of thing I'm often interested in and acting out and seeing, um, done on that stage for
04:22myself.
04:24And, um, and since I followed that, I think that I've really set a precedent so that people know that
04:32they can,
04:33that there's room for that in drag and that I'm one of the people that can do it.
04:39Christ was born across the sea with the glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me as he died.
