Influenced By Catholic Upbringing, Artist’s “Queer Icons” Offer Windows To God

A statue of a person on a wooden object.

For many Christians, icons are windows to God. They make the Ultimate accessible through divinely-inspired human artistry. Worldly subjects–almost exclusively holy people and their environments–draw readers outward and upward, beyond what is present, towards what is Holy. Artist Gabriel Garcia Roman’s icons of queer and trans* people of color achieve similar ends for me, employing real people…

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