Mick Prescott: horizons of the already not yet

For most of Mick Prescott’s life, (born Bossier City, Louisiana, 1993. Pronouns: They/Them) their father was the pastor of a tiny, country church in the woods. Prescott’s work both respects and subverts the time-honored craft traditions of the American church, appropriating well known hymns, liturgical recitations, and pop culture references to straddle a celebration of queer and trans life as a sacred being and a rejection of the strict mandates enforced by fundamentalist Evangelicalism and cultural Christianity in the U.S.