Lesbian Revolution is a three-year drawing exploring queer love, loss, grief, memory and the momentous significance of relationships between women. The work began after a queer relationship ended. I wanted to celebrate and remember the importance of queer love and my own journey within my sexuality. This gradually developed into a wider celebration of lesbian and queer love, queer community and the women who have shaped my life. The drawing is constructed through thousands of individually considered lines, with each line taking between 20 - 30 minutes to complete. I returned to the work repeatedly over three years, allowing the portrait to evolve alongside my own experiences of love, loss and change. 

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Following the death of my grandmother, a significant figure in my life, I devoted further time and energy into the piece. 

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The slow, repetitive process of drawing became both a grounding practice and a way of processing love and loss. The accumulation of lines reflects the passage of time, while the emerging portrait holds traces of the different emotional states experienced throughout its creation. The finished work functions as both an intimate record of grief and a celebration of queer love, my own sexual identity and queer community. It reflects how drawing can hold, transform and preserve.