Editor:
In response to Jan DeGrass’ review of the Refraction art show in Sechelt (Coast Reporter, June 10), I would like to speak a few words. Ms. DeGrass seems to object to the queer expression of sexuality in some of the pieces in the art show, indeed expressed relief at viewing a sexually neutral photograph in the show. Ms. DeGrass, I would like to suggest that your discomfiture is quite the point. It is queer sexuality that sets the LGTBQ community apart from the larger society surrounding us. Artistic expressions – or any expression, for that matter, that disrupts heteronormative assumptions in our culture – will of course provoke a twinge of uneasiness. Digging a little deeper into the reasons for feeling uncomfortable, and hopefully seeing how cultural assumptions are loaded, would make the art piece, to my mind, a success.
Elaine Lacasse, Sechelt
