Acrylic, graphite, ink, paper, found materials, digital prints, stickers, cotton and ash on usntretched collaged canvas (Fall 2020).
Jenny Draco, the Pavlov Cryptids, and the Siege of Vivarium Annex:
When they came for us we held out in the Vivarium Annex -- once known as Sunset Haven; the old county poor house and farm; what the kids wrongly called the Old Insane Asylum on Old Insane Asylum Road.
OR: After we lost our jobs we all had to move into the Vivarium Annex
It was an ideal location for underage drinking and drug use. At night you could see incoming headlights at one end of the gravel road or the other. But the midpoint was far enough away you could easily escape by turning your car one direction or the other and quietly driving away with your headlights off. As one generation of kids after another faded themselves in our woods and fallow farm, they did so under the shell of our house. We are not interested in being seen. But we watch. And we saw too much.
OR: We wanted to be seen as we actually were. But they weren’t having it.
We saw the future -- what they had planned. So the administration decided we had to go. We were under siege for months. Wave after wave fell at our feet. We could have held out forever, but in October they demolished the house itself.
JENNY (WAP) DRACO: When Librty Came 2 Town 2 Kill the Humans I Drowned Her in My Wetness
WILLY SWILLSWALLOW: They tried to beat me to death with my own tongue but I sucked so many motherfuckers dry
MONTY SNAPJAW - They didn’t know this is what they built me for
MIA - I protected the queer children and ate their fascist bullies
PENNY DRACO: I kept the petty kinds, rich brats, and landlords in line
IRIS XESTOBIUM: I warned folks with my tapping when weaponized institutional incompetence war near
ISAAC COLD: I can only exist when the world is ending
MIKE CRUSTFUR: I’m not real but it still hurt
LEE ORR: I used to work at Wendy’s but I kept getting attacked on the way home