Runescape girl gamer sword
I made this piece on Blender following tutorials to learn about modelling, procedural textures, and lighting. The style is inspired by the freemium game 'Runescape' and the freedom it allowed for queer kids in the early 2000s. Floating and stuck in procedural glass ice.
tags: sword, ice, 3D rendering, fantasy
⚸ 'Inner Solar System' album cover for bq ⚸
Using Blender, and learning from Blender community developments about nebulae on Twitter, I designed this space-themed album for the Chicago Funk band, bq. It was a fun project using 3D scans of rocks and building procedural space clouds.
tags: graphic design, identity, 3D rendering, space, Funk
Thinking about color and light...
This project is an exploration of the relationship of pigment and the interrelationship of lights, and the relationship of light and the interrelationship of pigments. I used a powder and ice dyeing method where the ice distributes and concentrates the dye—somewhat taking the choice of saturation out of my hands. In the middle and the top of the weaving, there are neon paracord. With both the paracord and two types of cotton plain weave with different concentrations of dye, and with a series of lights, the viewer will begin to understand the complex interactions of pigment and light. This documentation was originally a video but Neocities doesn't support those. Whoops! so here is a gif of that video.
tags: weaving, dye, electronics
'The things we do for love'
This piece was a way to think through my sexuality and the multiple layers of performance within queer and trans nightlife and hookup culture. It is a documentation of "what I'm into"--I used the gay hanky code as an established langauge with which to better understand, then encode, my then sexual interests. It was originally made as an instalation on a super buff male mannequin facing the wall, but began to feel unpurposefully awkward and inaccurate, so I just began to wear the pants and sport the hanky as an everyday outfit.
tags: textile, dye, weaving
'Red, Blue, in Between, and Neither'
Coming into SAIC before finding critical studies, I was enamored with understanding "queer" and "trans" symbolizism and imagery. If it didn't have a historical fixity, where did it come from? What does it REALLY look like? Where is it? For this piece I asked several of my high school and internet queridx to send selfies, loose text, images saved on their phone, and whatever they felt like represented where they were at in life. I used the medium of collage to make cohesion out of the sets of objects as a means of answering the aformentioned questions--but, thankfully, the product, the faces of my beautiful friends stretched out and complicated the questions into something much richer. Aside from the collages, the book begins with an essay on the subject of trans and queer imagery and symbolism in history and media, and ends with sketches and selected scans and screenshots.