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Two musical collabs coming up in the next two weeks🙀! I have not played a weird folk set for exactly 5 years (the last show was at Portland Art Museum) and played only two noizze shows during COVID... I really questioned the two things I had always done to stay sane---playing music and drawing, in solitude! Still trying to find meaning in it all and redefining those things in relationship to others --- so in the meantime am playing a sweeeeeet set with @avola_verns.world Avola (pictured) (with the imitable @crystalquartez and @aesthetic.stalemate)on 10/26 as part of the huuuuge @creativemusicguild Improv Festival with one or maybe two freak instruments I made, and a folk set on the Green opposite Mississippi Records in the daytime of 10/12 as part of @portlandtextilemonthat a family friendly event where folks can also do some indigo dyeing. This new human will be playing tambourine as part of their first of many shows! #beingaperson #hangingout #forcibly endingmyquarantine https://www.instagram.com/p/CjrHFMlvmxJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#beingaperson #hangingout #forcibly

Hope you're all taking care out there! Slowly getting set up here (they forgot to send some vital parts from Norway lol) but #TC2 #jacquard #loom will be operational as soon as they send me these last 6 pieces! At any rate, it's exciting. Means I can design and produce my own post-consumer waste fabric, help folks design their own, and keep making these large scale tapestries for architectural spaces and shows etc etc. Amongst other things. This is my plan so I can parent at home at the same time - hope it works out! 🤞🏽 https://www.instagram.com/p/ChC-dE_riFM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#tc2 #jacquard #loom

Hi hi I hopefully start production on custom woven illustrations in May, depending on my current hand injuries and healing timeline. First off the loom will be a large scale geometric comic I drew, in several panels. Been romanticising when I could build things/use my hands without severe pain. This is my kitchen I designed and built last year with two other folks, with mostly reused or salvaged material. Swipe right for before pic. The shiplap was from a dead standing pine. Not pictured is the deck outside I built in Sept, with live-edge benches from another epic infected blue pine. Hope y'all are staying safe and doing fun stuff X #abstractcomics https://www.instagram.com/p/CbBpZHkrLzR/?utm_medium=tumblr

#abstractcomics

First releases since COVID! Two Ragana albums on vinyl for their ten year anniversary!! So excited that these are finally pressed (after 6+ months of production time!) and we are sooo close to our release date! Gorgeous metallic foil stamped covers! Available to order on Bandcamp (~*link in bio*~) right meow whoooo! #ragana #pnw #anoutrecordings Also so excited to see them play in Feb with The Microphones! https://www.instagram.com/p/CYXpQPHJuTU/?utm_medium=tumblr

#ragana #pnw #anoutrecordings

Pics of the first 6 tapestries I've made this residency - a few more to come. I will start regularly producing one-off pieces in Feb 2022 :-) Open then for requests and commissions. Will always try to source from non-new material, or stuff I've grown/woven myself. Each one takes 14-16 hours to weave. These are all 43 inches wide, the ones I make next year onwards will be 55 inches wide. These are made from post-consumer mohair, angora, silk, cotton, flax linen and wool. The bricks and table ones are vegan (all cotton). Some people have asked about buying these, DM me with an offer, I'd rather them in people's homes than in storage :-) All illustrations by me, obv. Much love, take care 🤍 https://www.instagram.com/p/CU_KP9rr4dU/?utm_medium=tumblr

Posting video from super cute performance/installation @dundeelodgecampout, installed work at @loseyrmindfest last weekend (not pictured), my dog Cedar sleeping, and about to leave for artist residency @praxisfiberworkshop in Ohio, gonna spend some intimate time getting to know my new friend Mme Jacquard (it's a loom lol). If all goes well, we'll be buddies forever (i.e. I'll be custodian of my own!) and you'll see tonnes of woven illustrations and weirdo fabrics comin' out of me ad infinitum! #jacquard #loom #weaving #tc2 #embroidery #cotton #silk #blankies https://www.instagram.com/p/CUaZcd9p5c2/?utm_medium=tumblr

#jacquard #loom #weaving #tc2 #embroidery #cotton #silk #blankies

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Glitchy excerpt of my band Solastalgia at our first show this January with Ragana and Dawn Ray’d. I’m excited to reunite with Marit for the month of October where I’ll be at the Artist Residency at Centrum. She‘s my music sibling 💛 ‘Solastalgia’ means ecological grief, a mourning and nostalgia for what isn’t yet lost; and is specific to climate change. Accelerated loss of late. I hope folks are staying safe-ish X https://www.instagram.com/p/CFdOfhjBd6dya8Xgl7opyo65PFWSNPnzv75ETY0/?igshid=ck16uoi79hmk

Solo show on post -traumatic land/socialscape as a North American settler (during a pandemic, whilst supporting Black-led orgs) is up for August at Chehalem Cultural Center. Book a guided tour on their site. Last image is a cover snippet of my 106-page book released at the end of Aug, preorder at fixmyhead.storenvy.com All frontline houselessness orgs in Portland are getting a free copy. Love and rage X #pdx #trauma #ptsd #workbook #youth #support #community #settler #vovoartist (at Chehalem Cultural Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDlIwu7hqNS/?igshid=dginfwr6d2to

#pdx #trauma #ptsd #workbook #youth #support #community #settler #vovoartist

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The tests came in, the rest will in a month-ish! I’ll mail them out then! The third is a birthday present to myself, of the Mt St Helens eruption and a 2-door version of my car! On another note, I’m giving some de-escalation trainings next week for BIPOC folks working on the streets here in Portland, DM me if you need this training or some PDF resources! I’ll do my best to point you in the right direction! #blm #BlackLivesMatter #justiceforbreonnataylor #deescalation #burnitdown #vovoartist https://www.instagram.com/p/CDCeZyxBANE/?igshid=1ouxim82g6fhx

#blm #blacklivesmatter #justiceforbreonnataylor #deescalation #burnitdown #vovoartist

Weaving this into a giant blanket soon. All power to the people! #blm #burnitdown https://www.instagram.com/p/CBrbRvrh069/?igshid=c2v0mrardym2

#blm #burnitdown

Very, very preliminary photos of two blankets I drew, lemme know if you wanna preorder one! Will ship Aug 17. $25 profit from every sale goes to the Black Trans Fund, via Groundswell. They are 54″ x 70″ / 137 x 178cm which is a skerrick smaller than a Full Size double bed. Acrylic fibers. #burnitdown #abolition #BLM #comics #illustration #vovoartist https://www.instagram.com/p/CCwFJ-ahQmN/?igshid=yl0gqhf2lhjn

#burnitdown #abolition #blm #comics #illustration #vovoartist

I’m excited to see what happens with Minneapolis and I hope more cities internationally follow suit. Mainly that new ways don’t inherit systems of white supremacy. These institutions we are accustomed to are outdated to say the least. Gonna have a Zoom lecture/discussion in the next two weeks about “how it could work” if you’re not sure or feel like this is too big a change. Have been teaching TJ at several colleges and orgs over the past several years. I rarely post about my job so DM me rather than comment. Take care y’all. https://www.instagram.com/p/CBMEfxkBJnA/?igshid=g9ngfzdwj0ts

I’ve always wanted to tour the States with music but only toured w my zines. Now I get to play a venue in NC. Kinda. Livestreaming a show on Saturday from my basement or the backyard if it’s not ☔️ . @themothlight Show is with Brian Chase and Lunar Tides. Some of my music (The Condition and SCTF) is on Apple Music, Spotify, Youtube etc. Take care, be well. X https://www.instagram.com/p/CAeNSjMhiTT/?igshid=w3jlyhqx6aai

New work, for solo show at Fuller Rosen in November, “Occupy/Refuge”. Been trying to figure out the crossover between art, music, urgency of need, political dissent and immediate healing. This collaborative work is about how my parents who are refugees and myself as a kid worked for sweatshops in Australia for well-known fashion brands, but more specifically trying to communicate the accumulative trauma that refugees and immigrants experience through subjugation. Both my parents still work in factories, are still being pressured to go to work every day now, even though they’re at high risk, even though they’re not essential and the state they live in is exponentially dying due to pandemic. I want things to be better here (in the States), for all the communities who are disproportionately affected now, for frontline workers who the state/govt has failed and continue to exploit without proper protections. Thank you to all artists tagged who have shared their work and stories with me 💛 & I hope folks are doing their best to lighten the load placed on vulnerable communities currently, and using their access to advocate for folks without. Take care, lots of love. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_inLrMhvWN/?igshid=3uhgvb5ffp0e

Rough week, hope folks are doing ok. Finished the altar cloth after 7 weeks, 5ft x 5ft. Backed it with locally milled upholstery wool. Added a pic of the back for some insight into #freehand #embroidery brain! And included my most recent comic; will disable this account soon for a while X https://www.instagram.com/p/B07UDc8B3iO/?igshid=et11zvrawi2m

#freehand #embroidery

Hey-lo! I made my first color comic very quick-like yesterday for Portland Zine Symposium tomorrow at PNCA! It’s 32 pages of obnoxious aggression! Distortion #5! Hope to see you there 🖤 #pdx #comics #comix #zines #art https://www.instagram.com/p/B0G-RV2htKD/?igshid=1btt1tc2o65k0

#5 #pdx #comics #comix #zines #art

Will be playing two giant spring reverbs I built and a sheet of corrugated iron this Friday night in this sweet collab with @avola_vern_ddmmtt at a sick pro-choice benefit! #pdx #noise https://www.instagram.com/p/BzrqcTAhWQS/?igshid=61s2evdtj0w5

#pdx #noise

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