Untitled Queen didn't watch "Drag Race" the way some of the other drag artists did. Instead, they drew inspiration from their friends. "Many of us did not come from drag families, drag houses, so we didn't have this kind of lineage to direct or talk to us, so we were really teaching each other and learning on the go," Untitled says, referencing artists like Mocha Lite and Thorgy Thor, as well as Merrie Cherry and Horrorchata.
An artist in every sense of the word, Untitled finds inspiration even beyond the drag community. "My art practice is really interdisciplinary, like I work in installation, drawing . . . and so I'm inspired by lots of different things, like film and dollar stores and art history." They were excited to find that drag could also be multifaceted in this way. People were not necessarily transformed into one kind of artist — they were fashion stylists and designers, singers and rappers, DJs and punk rockers. For Untitled, drag feels like an extension of their art. A limitless exploration rather than an escape.
"My drag is not like a character, it's not— I wouldn't even really call it a persona. It's just me, it's a part of who I am," Untitled says. "What's amazing about drag and what I find so exciting about it, is it challenges and makes fluid all these ideas about our construction of our identity."
