#cakechicago2016

I debuted this offset-printed accordion book with slipcase at CAKE, the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, this past June.

My cat, Gus, gave me the idea, as he always lies in “shrimp” position.

But my favorite is the cinnamon bun cat.

not used to having a “blog” ever - but i will persist, sporadically these have been the past couple of months for me: new home, ever shifting job situations, recluse vs. necessarily outgoing; mostly going to therapy and working on that in addition to trying to make money and that is actually all i have the energy for. just joined PS1 up in avondale: https://pumpingstationone.org/ - check it out, i am equal parts excited and nervous and uncontrollably jazzed but after the open house/joining session last night i went back to ian’s house and had so many feelings i couldn’t articulate i turned on my new radio and danced (read: laid horizontal on ian’s bed and dramatically waved my arms and legs in the air) to this music that was what was on the classical station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7eZrz2Zmec otherwise, either my phone is dying perhaps for good or the heat is getting to everyone and everything; pgh in august perhaps, maybe philly too; i like raspberries; it is summer in the nice way right now and things are “okay” (read: good, just don’t jinx it)

- a demon from the book i debuted at CAKE this year: “DEMONS” about my belief in them and what that looks like. will be the beginning of a series; i made buttons at my workplace, https://www.busybeaver.net/ of this guy in particular as well as a few others

- left, Robert Mapplethorpe, Untitled, (Judy Linn), 1974; postcard from LACMA - right, my mother, approx. 1993 with her first cat, Groovy, and a self-portrait by/of my father

- ribs

- one of many collages made during the time i worked at IRFM (institutional resource facilities management) at SAIC a few years ago now, just found this and scanned it while unpacking at my new house infinitely

- i finished undertale. 

- new bedroom in new house, http://ballroomprojects.tumblr.com/

- CAKE makeshift business cards 

- this sick as fuckin boss ass holy shit motherfuckin amazing painting from 1990 at the kerry james marshall show, “when frustration threatens desire” 

- me standing at the farthest west i’ve ever been, on the fucking west coast, finally, at the pacific ocean, santa monica beach, this past may, where i might move to next year with ian, idk, don’t tell anyone