Creative Matters

Queer Tango

Authors

  • Dylan Jonas Stone

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.13.42391

Keywords:

creative non-fiction

Abstract

In ‘Queer Tango’, Dylan Jonas Stone reflects on learning the art of tango and its dancing movements, alternating between steps into the past and into the present, in ways reflecting the  memory work of diary writing, reading and re-reading. For Dylan, the intimacy of tango expresses - and sometimes confounds - expectations around sexualities.

Author Biography

Dylan Jonas Stone

Dylan Jonas Stone (www.dylanjonasstone.com) painted “Barbara and David Stone’s Bookshelves”, a 12’ x 14’  watercolour of his parents’ library, acquired by Museum of Fine Arts Houston. His 26,000 photographs of New York City, Drug Store Photographs was at the MoMA PS1, reviewed by Holland Cotter in The New York Times, acquired by The New York Public Library. His miniature rooms based on photographs by Eugene Atget, at the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, was reviewed by Roberta Smith, chief art critic for The New York Times. Susan and Michael Hort purchased several for their collection. For The Museum of Children’s Books in Turin, a collection of over 50,000 children’s books, he produced prints of a boy walking, cycling and drawing in the natural world. Hand Writing History - 200 Years of Personal Pocket Diaries is at King’s College London in The Maugham Library. 

The Gardener’s Theatre, is his gay coming of age story: at the age of 12, he had a sexual encounter with an older man. Dylan is creating a film of this emotional account of his childhood. Short Stories are miniature bronzes of his sexual encounters. Nicole Klagsbrun showed them at the New York Armory,  at Frieze London they were on the Deutsche Bank Top Ten List and with Bill Arning Gallery, The Houston Art Fair and in Richardson Magazine. His work is in the Albert Rafols Casamada Foundation, botanical watercolours at Carnegie Mellon University, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. 

Dylan storyboarded for Johnny Depp and Anton Corbijn’s new film.

Published

2024-12-17

Issue

Vol. 13 (2024): EJLW

Section

Creative Matters

Copyright (c) 2024 Dylan Jonas Stone

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