A bright field of pink flagging tape stretches across a wooden pallet, set against faux grass, rough stone, and a pale ceramic marker. The installation feels like a backyard remembered in pieces: familiar, artificial, and slightly unsettled. Through this compressed landscape, Brooklin turns toward memory of my childhood, using materials associated with yards, construction, and maintenance to revisit the place where their sense of self first took shape. The work reflects on rural queer identity without treating rural life as something to simply escape. Instead, Brooklin shows the tension of feeling connected to a place that has also shaped and limited them. Ideas of gender and labor surface through the language of upkeep, land, and domestic responsibility, turning the backyard into a site where identity, belonging, and social expectation are quietly learned.
