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Experiment with making small squares and then weaving them together. MAJOR practice piece. May do more with this, may leave it as-is. Designs based on Paracas textiles.
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Howdy! I’m still alive.
I’m fortunate, in that my day job is being done remotely, but it’s a very difficult change and I really don’t like it, so the stress has been getting to me. I was invited to be part of a really cool thing but it may have completely fallen through due to the stay at home order, I have no idea, so that kind of kneecapped my motivation, art-wise.
Hard copy version of my comics aren’t in my etsy store at the moment, as I’d been sneakily printing them on the printers at my office and I don’t have a printer at home. PDF versions are still up for sale.
At this time, I struggle to see the point of making art that doesn’t “do something.” Here are two tapestries I’ve made (I’m working on getting the edges even and reducing the amount of hour-glassing before I go totally nuts and invest in a rigid heddle loom) and some socks I darned for my boyfriend.
Completed my first “useful” weaving — a rag rug made of four panels woven together.
“Rich Forest of Breath & Burrow”
12x12, acrylic, thread, and bone
I just dropped off this piece at @pushpullseattle, for their art and poetry show “Stanza,” which opens Thursday the 18th!
There will also be a limited run of books with the pieces from the show, and the original poems that inspired them.
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A Bright Banner
Handwoven on my "trash loom" with cotton and acrylic fiber.
Practicing with patterns on my loom; this thing make me think of a cheerful cuttlefish.
From the dowel to the bottom of the fringe it is 12 inches long, the tapestry itself is roughly 10 inches long and 8 inches wide. The dowel is 12 inches. .
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Hamsa
Handwoven on my "trash loom" with cotton and acrylic fiber.
The Hamsa is a symbol of protection, popular in the Middle East and North Africa, in Jewish, Muslim, and Christian groups.
Fom the dowel to the bottom of the fringe it is 14 inches long, the tapestry itself is roughly 9 inches long and 7 inches wide. The dowel is 12 inches.
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hot damn!
These are my breasts and nipples, complete with acne, moles, and hair. Will this image violate tumblr’s new content rules?
Examples of exceptions that are still permitted are exposed female-presenting nipples in connection with breastfeeding, birth or after-birth moments, and health-related situations, such as post-mastectomy or gender confirmation surgery.
I am a transgender man. I have not had the opportunity or the money to have top surgery. I am excruciatingly aware that the “gender presentation” of my nipples is in the eye of the beholder. Disconnected from the context of the rest of my body and gendered presentation, they look like “female-presenting” nipples. Hell, there are plenty of cisgender women with more chest hair than me.
Are we going to determine the “gender presentation” of my nipples based on my legal gender? That’s debatable too. My most recent legal IDs list my gender as “male,” but my birth certificate lists my gender as “female.” I cannot change the gender on my birth certificate without going back to the state where I was born and getting an order from a judge, and paying a fee. Until I have the time to and money to do that, there will always be at least one legal document where I am still considered female.
Written content such as erotica, nudity related to political or newsworthy speech, and nudity found in art, such as sculptures and illustrations, are also stuff that can be freely posted on Tumblr.
I would say this painting has artistic merit, at the very least from a technical standpoint. I’m sure there are plenty of people who would see no artistic merit in this painting, regardless of technical skill. The line between “nudity found in art” and “adult content” is as indistinct as the line between “naked” and “nude.” Tumblr and Facebook’s new policies stem from SESTA/FOSTA [LINK] and corporate monopolies [LINK].
Policies meant to curtail sex work always hurt more than they help, whether the sex work is voluntary, coerced, or forced. Example: NYC, LA, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. have all had/have laws that allow possession of multiple condoms to be considered evidence of prostitution, resulting in arrest or the confiscation of the condoms. So, no safe sex if you’re doing sex work, I guess?
Policies like these disproportionately effect people and communities who are viewed as being “inherently sexual” or “overly sexual.” Facebook’s overzealous new policy prohibits reference to “sexual preferences.” I will bet money that policy won’t be enforced when a cis het man makes a status update about “I like girls with [insert physical attribute here],” but it will be enforced when a queer person refers to a top, a bottom, a switch, a Daddy, a [insert relational attribute here].
As to what constitutes art and how that concept gets weaponized against LGBTQ people (and other oppressed groups, I’d argue), just read about the history of conservative loathing for the National Endowment for the Arts [LINK].
I don’t think my little protest painting will make tumblr and their corporate overlords change their minds. But I couldn’t not express my opinion on this.
I don’t know if this blog will get flagged or deleted or whatever. I’ll keep using tumblr until I no longer have a reason to. But, just in case, I’ll be setting up a pillowfort, and maybe a poizen. In the meantime, you can keep up with my shitpost tweets HERE.
Here’s my first ever tapestry. Woven as a birthday gift for my lovely boyfriend, on my trash loom that I made from a thrift store picture frame.
It’s the sunset over southern prairie land.
I have got Ideas about fiber art so expect more in the future.
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Embroidery piece for my mom.
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What I’ve been working on lately – my first ever piece of embroidery!
It’s for my grandmom.
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trying not to have an anxiety attack with regard to... like... the world
the cactus’ legs turned out a bit wonky, but I’m learning and experimenting
also, you can expect to see more dolls on here because uhhh... they're actually part of my master's thesis research.
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my beloved is unto me as myrrh
original collage illustration available for $35
9 x 12in
Ink, marker, water color, and product packaging on found cardboard, coated with matte varnish for increased durability
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The Look of Love
original collage portrait available for $35
9 x 9.25in
Ink, marker, water color, loteria pages, floral wrapping paper, and product packaging on found cardboard, coated with matte varnish for increased durability
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Foggy Notion
original collage portrait available for $35
7.25 x 9in Ink, marker, water color, stickers, product packaging, and metallic paint on found cardboard, coated with matte varnish for increased durability
The scan doesn’t really do the metallic paint justice, so here’s a gif
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Oh, Crooked Teeth!
6.75 x 10in
Ink, marker, water color, stickers, product packaging, and plastic gems on found cardboard, coated with matte varnish for increased durability
original collage portrait, available for $35
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Straight to Hell, Boys
7x9.6 Ink, marker, water color, and japanese calligraphy on found cardboard, coated with matte varnish for increased durability
original collage portrait, available for $35
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Little Box of Hate
cigar box, newspaper, magazine pages, nails, embroidery floss, varnish, zipper pull stolen almost 20 years ago from someone who abused me
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Little Box of Luck
cigar box, cigarette packaging, toy packaging, loteria card, pen, gesso, varnish, instax mini photographs, fortune from a mechanical fortune teller
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Debuted this @shortrunseattle and now it’s up for sale in my etsy
"Emet" is a short story about a woman and a Golem -- $10, plus shipping 5.5 x 8.5, 12 pages, full color choose media shipping and save money!
I hope to post something about the awesome time I had at Short Run, but it might be a little while because I have about three grad school assignments I’m working on. Also there’s an election tomorrow and I will either be drowning my sorrows or celebrating having dodged the Apocalypse.
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So if you go to grad school for art therapy, you may end up taking a ferry out to an island to visit an aged psychoanalytic art therapist and present her with drawings of serial killers in exchange for her wisdom.
That's what I will be doing with my Saturday!
I'm giving her a picture of Jeffrey Dahmer and if the trip turns out to be some sort of elaborate murder mystery, please avenge my death.
Also, a collage piece about Edith Kramer and Margaret Naumburg, two early art therapists.
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details from "Shapeshiffterrr"
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Look, I'm still alive and making art!
"Shapeshiffterrr"
sculpy clay, acrylic paint, copper wire
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"Soft Hands"
acrylic paint and stickers on mat board
12x14
I was looking at a bunch of pictures of 'creepy cute' fashion and I was struck by how... un-creepy all of it was. It was the usual conventionally attractive, cisgender, able-bodied women wearing pastel-color clothes, with the occasional skull or drippy goo thrown in to be 'creepy.' When I saw an image of an ectrodactylic hand, I genuinely found it to be incredibly cute. The skin looked so soft and there were so many different colors in it. I wanted to paint it to show how cute it looked, how anything can be cute, even the bodies and people that others may find creepy or disturbing. Why can't this hand be cute? Why can't disabled or transgender or fat people be cute? I can assure you, they can feel cute and they can desire to be seen as cute by others. tl;dr fuck your fascist cuteness standards.
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"Memorial for a Moth."
glass jar, moth, cork stopper, candle
"Memorial for Nemo."
glass jar, cat hair, embroidery floss, bone stopper, candle
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I got kissed by a turtle dove upon a cold Paris manger I was waking up to my love, first moment dawning danger everything was new every sock and shoe my face and your face, tenderly renewed
tenderly renewed
"Christina's Farm" by Antony and the Johnsons
Based on a photograph of a man who survived a gunshot to the head during World War I.
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you are my son and i am saturn do you see it? this is you and me i want you to know as you're being eaten the lights will be on and that this is you and me
"Saturn" by Xiu Xiu
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a small collage from an old sketchbook
I may add more to it at some point
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My “Keep on Truckin’ with your Transition” collage that I made for myself.
Awesome, influential people.
Diamanda Galas in the top center. Pierre et Gilles’ “Saint Sebastian” on either side. David Wojnarowicz on the left, Slyvia Rivera in the center, Antony Hegarty on the right. Marsha P. Johnson and the wings of a gynandromorphic butterfly at the bottom center.
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