spring dispatch 🧚🏼♀️
so much has happened since october - here are some pictures
Thought it was about time for an update here !
It’s been a long time since I’ve written to you all—many months, in fact—but I wanted to pop in and say hello and show you some photographs that I’ve been doggedly making over the last semester here in Iowa City. Some of them are negative scans, some of them are darkroom prints, all of them are from some unknown new body of work that I’ve been affectionately referring to as Bootleg Prophet.
This research is stemming from my long-running interest in the aesthetics of occultism and doomsday prophecies, though I’m also increasingly interested in the pathology and personality profile required to claim Prophet Status, especially now. Do you have a family member that’s being a freak about somebody predicting the end times on TikTok? If so, would love to see the account(s) they’re looking at - let me know.
Toward the tail-end of my undergraduate degree at UNM, I started to make self portraits, both as stand-alone images and as documentation of durational performances (if you haven’t seen those yet, you likely won’t [unless you ask and have the patience to wait while I re-digitize them]). I’ve been doing that again and extensively, the self portrait thing, as a way of building an imagined (and prophetic) character to serve as the “protagonist” of this project.
I’ve also been making lots of still life’s, as seen in the header image, mostly of my rock collection/semi-precious stones, a vice brought to the children of Israel by the evil Nephilim before the flood and now traded globally as a New Age commodity (in case you don’t know this story from the Book of Enoch, the angel-human hybrids also introduced us to playing cards and eye shadow, Very Evil Things). That’s all to say that I’ve been in my apocryphal literature bag and these pictures are kinda pretty 🪨
Alright - that’s the skinny for now. Pictures are below, sculptures and other writing(s) will come some time in May or June, stay safe out there.
XOXO
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P.S. You simply must check out the online walkthrough of Ian Byers-Gamber’s exhibition, I Come Creeping - I’ve been thinking about this work constantly (and Ian’s website is great)
P.P.S. If you see something you like, feel free to give me a shout
