Lost Woods
Quincey Miracle
Lost Woods is an interactive public art exhibition using blanket forts, treehouses, and other makeshift childhood structures to explore the formation of queer identity in adolescence. Funds from the Generator Grant will be used to secure materials and exhibit space in order to bring the project to Buffalo.
Lost Woods is an interactive art exhibition exploring the formation of queer identity in adolescence and the continual act of trauma processing in adulthood through children’s forts and video games. Through a foray into the incomprehensibility of youthful world-building, Lost Woods/It’s Easy to Get Lost Here presented sites of imaginative possibility and self exploration.
These interactive works explored the transformative nature of blanket forts, treehouses, and other makeshift childhood structures. The exhibit invited viewers into a series of impermanent constructions that investigated the formation of queer identity in adolescence.
Within the clubhouse, viewers were invited to play a choose-your-own-adventure video game featuring imagery and narrative from a previous reconstruction of the artist’s childhood home.
