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Will To Live
Animated digital mixed media with Midjourney and Photoshop.
AVAILABLE ON 1stDibs // LinkTree
I’m not tumblr famous yet, but my friend @maxcapacity is so I will ride his coat tails to the top. :B
Here is is a piece I made over his work. A VR painting on top of some toxic avenger glitch. It will be incoming on #tezos for #henreunion- yes that’s nfts - tezos was always #cleannfts and about the art. We doing a tumblr reunion of sorts. It’s an empty mall here since the pr0n ban, let’s fill it will the joy of art...crypto art
UPDATE: This piece is now live on Teia Community for HENReunion. It is an open edition at .1 $xtz each. Unsold will be burned sunday/monday 10/2/2022 night. https://teia.art/empresstrash
My Fragile Ego
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Digital Mixed Media Animation, .gif. Minted on Manifold, Listed on Foundation.
We will do so much to hold onto precious narratives so our ego is not shattered as humans. The ego is so delicate but tenacious at the same time.
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Available on Foundation
~ Welcome ~
Empress Trash (Drea Jay) is a multi versatile visual artist & nomad with her rottweiler Glitch. A lifelong artist, she earned her BFA in Painting, Drawing, and Animation/Design from the University of Iowa in 2014. Shortly after, she moved to the Bay Area which she assisted and worked alongside a multitude of local and international artists and shows including Ai Wei Wei's show on Alcatraz, being a member of the Firehouse Art Collective run by Tom Franco, and running her own underground shows from her house. She started in crypto art in 2021 and since has been exhibited internationally including Paris, Palm Springs, Miami Art Basel, NYC, LA, SXSW and Ted Talks Conference in Vancouver.
The Empress portion of her name represents her ongoing search for sovereignty and elevated autonomy since she left home and emancipated herself from her extremely physically, mentally, sexually and spiritually abusive Schizophrenic, addict mother at the age of 13, while Trash stands for her aesthetic and her roots as "trailer trash". Art for her is the only constant in a tumultuous life and a safe space to confront demons from a highly isolated, oppressive and chaotic upbringing while still appreciating the beauty in herself and the world.
As a process orientated artist, Empress embraces abstraction, surrealism, trash, glitch art, and AI. She utilizes radical expressionism and self-acceptance to further her journey of self discovery. She believes in peeling back the veneer of reality to allow for exploration of the subconscious meta connections between the emotional, physical, mental, sexual and spiritual realms.
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This blog is kept mostly up to date with current works for ease of scrolling along with complete thoughts about the inspiration behind the work or collection ~ however this blog is not a comprehensive (yet) catalog of my works.
To explore all works and platforms I currently am showcased on, along with different social medias, on you can jump on my LinkTree here:
I make art & mistakes. Multiversatile Artist. Not for human consumption.
Additionally, I run a crypto art community focused blog in which I share writings, insights, news, events and other artists work along with my own. @theempresstrash
Landscape for Aliens
VR Painting in PaintingVR touched up in Procreate. Minted on Manifold, Listed on Foundation.
I hope the aliens like it.
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Available on Foundation // VR Painting YouTube Channel // LinkTree
Freedom Lost
Digital Mixed Media utilizing Midjourney, Procreate and Photoshop. Minted on MakersPlace.
Roe v. Wade was overturned and a little bit more sovereignty over our bodies has been lost.
Owned by GoblinGrlz
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LinkTree // MakersPlace Collection
Glass Ceiling Disco
Digital Mixed Media Glitch. Original .png submitted and not accepted to Pussy Riot x SaveARTSpace billboard campaign for 2022. Glitched and modified to fit your television screen.
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Since it's creation, Glass Ceiling Disco has been exhibited internationally at SXSW, @TEDTalks, NFT NYC, Searchlight Atelier, multiple virtual and in person galleries and Fylthy Trash Art Exhibit in Los Angeles. The day it was at TED talks in Vancouver funnily enough, it was in LA also projected in an alley by a dumpster in LA to actualize the idea of "Empress Trash" on a international scale.
Glass Ceiling Disco is a vision of how crypto and nfts will help shatter the glass ceiling that many traditional markets and institutions have in place for women, PoC, LGBTQ and other marginalized populations. This piece I purposefully priced higher as part of the magic of it, because this piece is about my hopes of the crypto art spaces future in shattering glass ceilings of traditional art markets, not just for myself, but for other women and LGBTQ+ and trash/glitch/experimental art creators. It depicts my doc martens dancing on a bed of broken glass, which is what I see as the broken glass ceiling.
These docs I wear to every event I go to because they help me feel grounded and safe surrounded by strangers. As a survivor of childhood and domestic abuse, any tool to feel a little safer navigating the world helps, and these docs are like a safety blanket for me.
Further I chose the energy of joy to be in the piece, instead of critiquing how markets are still currently imbalanced for women artists as a whole, because it is the joy I am trying to manifest. The bright colors are the celebration and the glitch animation is the disruption which is needed of the systems for equity to happen.
While this work is still available for purchase, the message and ethos was heard and resonated instigating change for myself, the crypto art systems and focus, and beyond in ways I still can not comprehend. These two boots carried me from a relatively obscure underground artist to international recognition. I wonder where else these boots will lead me?
Some day we will dance on the glass to celebrate hearing the crunch under our feet.
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Media About The Piece: Fylthy Trash where it was exhibited next to ROBNESS, Max Capacity, the Perfesser, Eric Rhodes, and a multitude of other Trash Artists.
Ted Conference where it was exhibited along with Beeple, Fewocious, Foodmasku and select others at the event to showcase artists in crypto.
NFTNYC showcasing emerging talent.
SXSW showcased through KnownOrigin for a Women's art exhbition.
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This work is available here on KnownOrigin:
Original .png submitted and not accepted to Pussy Riot x SaveARTSpace billboard campaign for 2022. Glitched and modified to fit your televis
Tears of Gold
Digital mixed media utilizing midjourney and photoshop
Why does abundance need to be built on suffering?
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AVAILABLE ON MAKERSPLACE
