Eli de Vries is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice focuses on queer individuals in rural America and their place in the countryside, in memory, and the LGBTQ+ community. Touchstones for the work include Christianity, domesticity, agricultural and dairy farming roles, media representations of queer femmes, and mid-century ideals and design. Recent work has detailed the loneliness of small town rural life and unspoken adolescent queer longing, but also works to communicate more broadly about both the existence of “the closet” and of folks living a healthy gay life in the countryside.