Juliet Patterson

Beard

History & Biography

“Beard traces the aftermath of love, secrecy, and the longing to be seen. Moving between memory and myth, Lundquist weaves personal narrative with the charged symbols of queer iconography—glamour, disguise, survival. What does it mean to carry someone, or to be the one carried? What remains when the performance ends? An incisive, beautiful meditation on intimacy and identity, Beard reminds us: not all beards are false, and not all truths are spoken.”