The work "Looking for Fairies" is about daring to love and hope in the face of prejudice and prosecution.

The work is based on two Victorian picture genres. Most important is the photographs of "Romantic Friendships", a photographic trend where men went to a photographer to have their photo taken holding hands, embracing, sitting on each others lap, even hugging and kissing. This in a period of time when homosexuality was forbidden by law. But friendship wasn't.

A disparaging name used on feminine men in this period was "fairies", and the other pictoral genre used in the work, is the innocent, childlike Fairy Paintings, a strange Victorian trend of painting fairies, with wings and crowns, dancing in the forest in a summerly night.

When it was forbidden for a queer man to have a partner, cruising in parks and forests was often one of the few options available to meet. In the work "Looking for Fairies", I've cut out single men from the romantic friendship photographs, and placed them as hopeful fairies in an idyllic summer forest, hunting for their future beloved friend.