The exhibition, “Queer Geographies”, coincided with the 8^th anniversary of the Orlando, Florida shootings at the LGBTQ+ nightclub Pulse. 

The artist Sebastian Duncan-Portuondo and community members made “disco mosaic rocks”—extant rocks from the park adorned with shards of a disco mosaic ball. The stones were stacked up like a “cairn” (a manmade marker for burial) in the gallery (see picture). Each rock was eventually returned to the park at the end of the show.

Patel refers to this piece as “galactic queerness” because the pile of rocks was exhibited in a room set up to mimic stars in the sky.

Here’s a link with some info.: https://www.franconia.org/queer-geographies/