The Shape of Queer Liberation: On the Geometry of Promare

<p>The first image of&nbsp;<em>Promare</em>&nbsp;is a triangle constrained inside a rectangle, distorted and maimed as the walls close in around it.</p> <p>There&rsquo;s a place for subtlety in art, but there&rsquo;s also a place for distilled simplicity. And the more I think about&nbsp;<em>Promare</em>&nbsp;the more I feel a burning need to shout from the rooftops about the sheer elegance and power of the visual symbolism of shapes. Triangles &mdash; the burnish flames, sparks, broken glass, Lio&rsquo;s earring, the sharp edges of Lio&rsquo;s Mad Burnish suit, the triangle mosaics on Lio&rsquo;s burnish sword, triangular ash floating upward in the triangular firelight, the triangular peaks of a volcano looming. Rectangles &mdash; lawns and buildings and city blocks of Promepolis, blocks of ice, the barrel of a freezing gun, cubical elevators, cubical cells, cubical restraints, tiled rectangles of windows and doors, rectangular barriers. The moment I knew I was watching a masterpiece was when I noticed that even the lens flare effects of the sunlight in the rectangular city of Promepolis are rectangular. This is not a world in balance.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/anigay/the-shape-of-queer-liberation-on-the-geometry-of-promare-cf8b1b47ced4"><strong>Visit Now</strong></a></p>