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dusk, post displinary artist, they/them

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omfg_astrid

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astrid underpainting

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Sylvoen Kandi

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GONCHAROV (1973)  dir. Martin Scorsese 

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[alternative text: Two similar images at different angles. They show a workspace with a large glass palette that has many swatches of paint. It's yellow greens and red browns making up the majority of the colors. Strewn around are paint tubes, mason jars, used rubber gloves, and bottles of various liquids.]

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happy caturday 😺

[alternative text: A painting of a cat with loose brush strokes. The cat's face is the main focus of the painting. It's eyes are directed at the viewer and are a dark blue. The bottom half of it's head is off white and the top half a mottled mix of grays, browns, and blues. It's resting on a wooden window sill depicted in oranges, browns, and reds. The background is a swirly green mix.]

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[alternative text: A painting of a black and white cat in loose brush strokes. The cat is sitting on a half moon scratching post type thing. In the background there's an power outlet and greenish yellowish walls.]

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🎨 oil painting for the first time in years

[alternative text: Image showing a glass painting palette resting on a white surface. The palette is has a number of mixes of paint on it. Ranging in colors from a deep red, to a warm brown, to peachy shades of pink orange. There’s a brush in the middle of the photo. And to the right there’s a bit of an unfinished painting with some of the same color. The paint strokes are loose and playful.]

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throwback to brainstorming my black trans lives matter animation

[Alternative Text: Shows an image that says black trans lives matter many times. The repetion starts with black words and then repeats downwards alternating between black and white. The lines grow closer together and are placed behind the previous this repeats until they are almost entirely overlapping. The background is a overly saturated purple.]

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[Alternative text: Shows a detail of a painting of that has a slightly wilted rose. The rose is yellow with browns and golds in shadows and highlights. The background is stark white. There the top of a red bottle in the bottom left. There's a few other stems coming out of the top of the bottle.]

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The Now of Queer Futurity

[Alternative Text: A mostly white painting hangs on a white wall. The painting shows a classically shaped Coca-Cola bottle with the word love scrawled across the front. In the bottle there is a yellow rose that is somewhat wilted, so it is slumped over. There are some other plant branches coming out of the bottle and there’s light gray shadow of the objects along the bottom.]

Artist Statement: Advanced by Jose Esteban Munoz’s writing in Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, Warhol's work Still Life (Flowers) can be read as queering a Coca-Cola bottle by adding a flower to it. My work offers an examination of this concept in the modern day. It provides a commentary on Coca-Cola’s participation in pinkwashing queer pride. Pinkwashing in the context of pride is companies using sponsorships to improve public relations and plastering products with rainbows to profit while not contributing to or actively fighting against systemic change.

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January 31, 2021 at 5:44 am

[Alternative text: A painting hangs on a white wall. The painting depicts a syringe, vial, and other non-descript paper materials. It is done with playful brush strokes but there are sections of the painting near the middle that are sharper. Most of the color in the work is a cool dark blue with some lighter shades and there are patches of warmer browns throughout the work.]

Artist statement: This work explores the beauty and normality of these objects after just over a year of taking estradiol.