What Does the Future Hold? / Doomed Future x Jinxed / 09.13 - 10.11.2024
On Our Own; Together / watercolor, wire, glass beads, carved frame
A multi media piece created during the Alpha Capricornid’s meteor-shower, referencing an astrology photographer's image. This painting is created with 3D elements such as wire, beads & tactile differences in paper mediums to feel the mountain range below compared to the sky above. The artist created this during a period in which they were experiencing intermittent loss in fine motor skills & sight due to ongoing chronic illness. The title of the piece suggests that it is up to each of us to be an integral part of solutions needed in life while also reminding that you’re not alone in this venture. The artist fondly remembers sharing with a fellow creator that they had similar sentiments in their pieces within the affirmation of “Let it Flow” to encourage each other to just let it out and create without self doubt or censorship.
This piece was created as part of a group show put together by Doomed Future and hosted at Jinxed Vintage in South Philadelphia, featuring over 50 artists. The exhibition, “ ‘What Does the Future Hold?’ is a visual representation of what each artist thinks about the future of the world, their personal future, or where their art is headed. Through literal or abstract depictions, each artist will share their hopes, dreams, fears, or revelations of what’s to come as individuals, or for the entire human race.”
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This is Fine / Eclips3 / 07-08.2024
Tribulations UnExalted 01 / multi media collage
Culminating nearly two years of special interest research in regards to the Schumann Resonances & a lifetime of internal processing, the artist freezes in time their attempts at reconnecting with family & learning by dismantling personal affects. Created from a rough draft of their coming out letter, combined with gouache, watercolor, and pastel textures, the draft is stitched together with linocut cracked cranial prints in all three pieces. Creating through trauma processing, learning the beauty of what the earth’s heartbeat holds and how it may hold a key to aide us. The journey of healing is rarely linear, but this is no burden; it is a sign of the future’s joy.
Tribulations UnExalted 02 / multi media collage
Poisoned water. Plastic rain. A false promise of ‘inclusion’ by talks of non-biased drafts. 02 focuses on the cessation of my own family’s generational curses. Trauma, physical and mental differences that I spent a lifetime not fully understanding until seeing the unfogged pieces of the puzzle connected in front of me. Like many others, I refuse to follow in my ancestors footsteps, in military service & in acceptance of this failing system.
As above, so below...we must all resist & grow.
Tribulations UnExalted 03 / multi media collage
Beams of light aligning over a target. Protected puppeteers allowing world ecocide. A second sun? Sudden ‘accidents’ nationwide to distract from the legislation changes. More research, endless days spent compiling to empower others & as if by design, before it’s shared, evidence disappears. A desperate attempt to bookmark this knowledge for others before their trap snaps, and the culmination of my own neurological and physiological troubles reaches their peak. What do you do when you learn the help you were given actually distracted you? The systems of healing in place fail you and medications dull you.
I press my hand to my chest, take a deep breath and remind myself that we must always believe there can be a better future.
Jinxed heART Show / Jinxed / 02.2015
Burning Love / acrylic, chalk marker, wax & flames
The artist’s piece submitted to the annual Valentine’s Day exhibition was their interpretation of how raw, unconditional love can create something new entirely or consume oneself whole if left to burn unchecked with no lessons learned.