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“Darrell: Is the temple of intimacy ever private? A temple is a public space. Trent: Somehow, we are wasting good suffering. What do I mean by that? Darrell, how can we live?—In a home. A home that works, a home that is tender in a minimal voice, a home that is home and the recreation of home, where we cross a line we want to cross, the blur of me and not me where we cook my mother’s stew, fuck, clean our bodies, watch TV and sleep. The fortress of our queer soul. Where the fridge fills and the trash empties. Where we endure what we can’t survive and what we choose to suffer. This is home, sweet musty sheets. This is home: fabric, wood, gas, lath and plaster, bricks, concrete, stainless steel, paper, glass and clay.” __ An excerpt from poet and writer Robert Glück’s essay on Louis Fratino’s painting “The pure and the impure,” 2024, part of the artist’s Spotlight presentation at the The FLAG Art Foundation. On view through February 8, 2025 #LouisFratino #robertglück Installation view of “Spotlight: Louis Fratino” at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2025. Photography by Steven Probert. (fb)