Daniel Aston

This painting features Daniel Aston, one of the transgender people whose lives were taken in the transphobic shooting of Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Daniel was a kind young man who worked as a bartender at Club Q, where he enjoyed creating a warm and friendly atmosphere. According to his mother, he always insisted he was shy, but he wasn't. He enjoyed drama in high school and he loved writing poetry. In this painting, I chose to immortalize not only Daniel’s appearance, but also the last poem he publicly shared.