Tag: Tender

  • The Language of Flowers Meets Queer Desire in Kris Knight's Tender Portraiture

    In late 19th-century London, the famed writer and ostentatious dandy Oscar Wilde initiated a trend that, as trends often do, flourished into a life of its own. Wilde wore a green carnation—the typically pink petals were dyed with arsenic—to the theater, prompting questions about what the oddly colored boutonniere symbolized. This was the height of read more

    The Language of Flowers Meets Queer Desire in Kris Knight's Tender Portraiture