Piece description from the artist
One pride doesn't fit all.
I created this illustration, this field of figures in various shapes, heights, and sizes, to celebrate the diversity and beauty of the LGBTQIA+ community. As I shaped and gave color to the figures, in reds and pinks and blues and violets, I remembered: not everyone's pride looks like a bright rainbow.
The experiences and stories of the LGBTQIA+ community are as diverse as the members themselves. Our stories are those of pride, dignity, strength, curiosity, fear, danger, anxiety, trauma, laughter, celebration, pain, and hope, all bundled in a community of diverse and beautiful human beings.
To you, dear friend, who celebrates, wrestles, holds your head high, or dips it low, who fears for your safety, who cherishes, who laughs and cries, or who holds your pride with subtlety, fragility, and hope: you are valued. You are loved.
John Paul Snead is a Washington, D.C., based artist and illustrator whose primary tools include an iPencil, micron pens, and palette knives.
He is a Co-Founder of Lola & Pear Publishing, a small publishing company based on Capitol Hill that focuses on children's books, particularly those that tell stories of rescue dogs. John Paul has illustrated all three of Lola & Pear's books: The adventures of Duke, The Therapy Dog, Mommy Didn't Say That, & Rosie to the Rescue.
John Paul's favorite collection, "The 175ers," is a series of pen and watercolor pieces on 6"x9" paper that was exhibited at Theater Tuscaloosa in Alabama during the run of a production of Cabaret. The collection, using rough pen figures and pink watercolor, depicts the persecution of homosexuals by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany.
He lives in DC with his husband and tabby cat.
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