I wish gays hung out places where we can sit down, Finnegan Shannon

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Finnegan Shannon

I wish gays hung out places where we can sit down, 2025

Imagine: wheelchairs for use on the dance floor, 2025
Variety of manual wheelchairs, cushions, fabric

Wikipedia Page Name Change Edit, 2025
Colored pencil on paper

Prayer is whatever you say on your knees, 2025
Seven paintings

Ode to the Sisters Against Disablement (S.A.D.) Code, 2025
Pen on paper

Strewn about the gallery are three wheelchairs that vary in size. This work is called Imagine: wheelchairs for use on the dance floor, and consists of manual wheelchairs available for visitors to use. Each of the three wheelchairs has a unique cushion made with different fabrics. The cushions themselves feel dense and supportive like thick rubbery foam. The largest wheelchair has a chromemaroon steel frame, and black seat, backing, and arm rests. A bright orange cushion with athletic mesh lining sits on the seat. Another wheelchair is all black with a silver and gunmetal-black speckled frame. Its cushion is velvet that gleams between bright purple and dark fuschia in the light. The last wheelchair is smaller and has a silver and black frame, seat, and backing. Additionally, this wheelchair has black foot rests in the front for leg support. The cushion is a light-blue washed denim that’s soft and cottony to the touch. They are all available and encouraged for guests’ use, and they have no specific arrangement in the space or spot to be returned to. They’re static, mobile, often in motion, or slowly shifting from the force of their last users’ disengagement.

Looking at the gallery, there are three walls in view that shape three sides of a rectangular space, the following descriptions will move from left to right as the works are displayed.

On the left wall, a large drawing in colored pencil is framed. The frame is centered at seated eye level, the top of it reaches probably four to five feet off the ground. The pencil marks are noticeable, and the entire drawing has a heavily sketched quality to it. Depicted is a screenshot of a wikipedia page. At the top, the typical header of a phone is included with a battery life symbol, wifi or network lines, 5 GE, and the time (11:09) with a little crescent moon in the corner. Below it is a date and time in large bold letters, like a heading to the website being screenshotted. It says 20:53 GMT, 08 March 2023. There’s a sectioned off portion right below that, which includes the words Editor information, and a little general profile picture icon with the username Stella0003. At the very bottom is a paragraph that has been edited and has some strikethroughs and different colored highlights. In the original text, “Shannon Finnegan,” the word Shannon has been struck through and highlighted red. After the word Finnegan the word Shannon is added and highlighted in green. Following the edited name, which now reads Finnegan Shannon, is a short section of a biography that cuts off mid sentence before the end of the page or drawing.

On the wall to the right of the drawing, seven canvases are hung without frames. They are in a line across the entire wall and centered at seated eye level. The canvases are completely covered on the front and sides in a textured, splotchy dark blue. On their right sides, the paintings are labeled in white text as prayers for each day of the week, respectively, “Monday’s Prayer, Tuesday’s Prayer,” and so on. On the top and bottom are centered white dots that are thinly circled by a line of dark blue, darker than the already deep wash of the canvas. The paintings have chunky white text that is also thinly traced in dark blue. This writing composes infinitive verbs and phrases related to care. From Monday to Sunday, they read: “Enhance blood circulation, Provide optimal support, Allow complete relaxation without any exertion, Apply gentle pressure, Pamper sore feet and calves, Soothe, warm,” and lastly, “Ease pain.”

On the third wall, twelve drawings in green frames hang on the wall, centered at seated eye level. The works are rectangular and installed in a grid with three rows of four columns. Each display phrases written in grey, slender, and semi-bold handwriting over a white background. In all twelve drawings, the writing tends to offer a word and a definition, or instruction such as, “Seating: hard and soft, flexible,” or “smoking: allowed but strictly forbidden on the dance floor.” The phrases vary from single to multiple. Often the multiple ones seem to offer differing options.