Soft Thrones emerges from Jova Lynne’s return to her familial home of Kingston, Jamaica, where she facilitated a series of intimate workshops with queer-identified, female-spectrum Jamaicans. Rooted in collective inquiry, these sessions invited participants to reflect on how power is cultivated, embodied, and transmitted—both through the physical body and the tools, rituals, and cultural inheritances that shape daily life. Through dialogue, movement, and shared storytelling, participants explored the nuances of claiming agency within environments that often marginalize queer and gender-expansive identities. These conversations, alongside Lynne’s own meditations on lineage, selfhood, and the complexities of family, form the conceptual foundation for the portraits featured in Soft Thrones. Rendered as visual extensions of these exchanges, the portraits embody the intertwined themes of resilience, sovereignty, and self-definition that emerged through the
​workshop process.

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