At Last

At Last, 2025, 22x30in, ultraviolet screen print

Authors

  • Ains Reid

Keywords:

Queer Joy, Love, Resistance, Connection, Home, Long-distance

Abstract

Through hand-pulled ultraviolet screen prints, I explore themes of connection, home, and queer joy as resistance. At Last addresses persisting queer love and interpersonal connection across temporal and spatial barriers, using soft, nostalgic tones and values and an airplane as a symbol for distance. Through its size, my print demands attention in a gallery setting, hence forcing the heterosexual majority to face the reality and resilience of real queer love.

Author Biography

Ains Reid

Located on the unceded, traditional, and ancestral territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation, I am earning a BA in Art History and Visual Culture and minoring in Visual Arts. I have exhibited internationally in Sofia, Bulgaria and Exeter, United Kingdom and am the recipient of UBC Okanagan’s 2025 Art History and Visual Culture Scholarship and the 2022 Lake Country ArtWalk Award. My ultraviolet screen printing practice is informed by my research of Queer art history and transgender studies.

A textural, layered work of visual art depicting a queer couple kissing over top of images of airplane safety cards.

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Published

2026-06-03

Issue

Section

Creative