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here’s some art. am i a star now? can you see me? one of a billion trillion little twinkling stars. so so far away that by the time anyone sees me ill have been dead a billion trillion years. cest la vie mon petit etoile. —————————————- www.mynameisiden.com dm for prices or inquiries www.redbubble.com/people/mynameisiden/shop www.instagram.com/cdjunky/ www.instagram.com/beverly_chill_z/ www.facebook.com/cdjunky/ www.facebook.com/mynameisiden/ —————————————————————— ——————————————- special thanks to @vimpoke_official and @jinnyx_official for supporting my work. www.vimpoke.shop use code IDEN50 for 50% off www.jinnyx.com IDEN55 for 55% off —————————————————————————————————————- #collage #handcutcollage #analogcollage #analogart #analogartwork #transartist #queerartist #queerartistsofinstagram #artistofcolor #transgenderartist #transgenderart #transart #collagist #mentalillnessart #surreal #surrealartist #nightmareart #transproud #ohioartist #gayartist #lgbtq+art #my_name_is_iden #mynameisiden #darkaesthetic #daytonartists #blackcollagist #blackartist #sckbch #darkkissedstar https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl_QihRudqf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Good fucking lord I love swearing now. #justexmormonthings • These leaves took me so long to draw but I LOVE how it turned out! • You can order this design as a sticker, a magnet, on a mug or a phone case, even as a duvet cover for some reason! • Find this design on our RedBubble shop Exmoliving.redbubble.com, or copy this link: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/87670690?asc=u • ❤Al • • • • • • #exmormon #postmormon #apostate #exmo #cultsurvivor #excult #postmormonlife #exmormonart #queerfamily #queerart #digitalart #digitalillustration #digitaldrawing #digitalartist #queerartist #queerartistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #artofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CTYQiC_pHQA/?utm_medium=tumblr

I spend most of my time working in front of the mirror to compensate for my slipping sense of object permanence. This is what I see when I look up. Some lapses on lighting but who cares about physics anyway right #ArtPH #queerartistsofinstagram #artistsofcolor #artistsoninstagram #cartoonart #artofinstagram #artwork #art https://www.instagram.com/p/CKBNg0ihmNe/?igshid=17xrbdr12ne32

Here’s my illustration of the super handsome and talented @christophmichaud ! For our art trade! Make sure you checkout his work and give him a follow if you haven’t already ;) #supportqueerartists #supportqueerillustrators #artexchange #arttrade #queerarttrade #christophmichaud #gayartist #queerart #queerartist #queerartistsofinstagram #instagramartist #supercutie

This dreadful thing was the last of the suite of nightmare cold-rolled steel, scaff and canvas objects. It was important you me that this work was about deliberate, calculating mass-murder rather than something like a frenzied hate-crime Lynch mob -so the visual language had to be austere, cold and machined. A tutor had described this set as like “nazi cash points”. This one was a giant industrial flower-press to fit a thousand flowers. I had hit in these stereotypical fey and delicate ideas like flower-pressing and butterfly collections etc to riff on abusive presentations of ideas around gay men as somehow flimsy or effete. A flower-press preserves one flower by flattening the liquids out of it thereby delaying any decay. It is a delicate procedure. This one was different. It would use industrial pressure to crush 1000 flowers (picked for me from local wasteland by helpful second years) so representing a local randomly selected sample population, destroyed and crushed. I left a shock proof glass window (like the nazis had in the doors of gas chambers). What was happening could be seen but most was hidden. The flower sap dripped out the sides and immediately rusted the cold-rolled steel, causing blood like puddles around it. The meanings of this industrial scale murder where obvious and it lived in sketchbook alongside notes about the pink triangle, holocaust, homocaust and deliberate lack of AIDS research. Other images included here show it’s placing in the installation and stages of development. #queerartistsofinstagram #queerart #queerartist #degreeshow #degreework #sculpture #aidscrisis #industrial #flowerpress #steel #homocaust #massmurder (at Stoke-on-Trent) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXJwFuhsnio/?utm_medium=tumblr

It seems appropriate to be archiving this finished work from my degree show today, World AIDS Day because of course that wax the predominant theme of the work. AIDS hasn’t gone away even though the treatments available are far better now. The same will be true of Covid at some point. At the time the AIDS crisis was like a deadly siege that gay men in particular were experiencing it was strange to see the rest of society seeming to care very little about it. Right wing governments not only sat back and let the death toll mount but actively benefited from it. These fabric shapes were based on ideas of body bags and belted in the middle to make a bigger shape. The body bags were for the association of death that came with any desire for physical intimacy that seemed all pervasive in the 80s and 90s. Four body bags suggested a group of people experiencing this rather than a couple but the shape was drawn together to imply two people having sex. The diagonal gibbet made from scaff bars (that refer to masculine stereotypes like workmen), crossed out the couple to become a “caution, no fucking” sign. The figures are, as usual, also crucified on this frame. The figures were characterised by their own attributes such as static handcuffs and ankle straps versus motive meat hooks and heavy castors. The finished outcomes, looking back we’re nowhere near plump or filed enough to match my intentions in the drawings. I’m glad however of the planning drawings here because the photo record of the whole show was limited and under exposed - even in the best quality slide film I could afford. Recording work in the pre-digital world was not as easy as it is now. #queerart #queerartistsofinstagram #degreeshow #finished #crucifixion #worldaidsday #artstudent #deliberate #cull #endhomophobia #aidscrisis #condemnation #victimblaming (at Stoke-on-Trent) https://www.instagram.com/p/CW85P7tM_Zw/?utm_medium=tumblr

The photoshoot for the drawings I showed yesterday happened (I think over the Christmas or Easter break that year as it was) back in Liverpool with my friends in their cellar on Percy Street. I was about 22 so look like a tiny slip of a thing. I remember @owens449 and @elshaaaaa took the photos for me and I know @extremenoisejasper and @steve73uk modelled with me to get a set of shots (only partially resultant from the drawings). The reality of a photoshoot is that one responds instinctively to the elements of the space that actually exists rather than any previous ideas about it. Certain things were important like that the shots would be black and white (to suggest two tone but also to suggest the rigidity of right wing radicalisation where views are simplified down to “us and them”, “right or wrong” etc). They had to be spot-lit in darkness to because I loved Caravaggio and chiaroscuro. The details of the space itself should be used - here a missing brick to the next room provided a chance for disembodied hands to silence me or blind me like a see no evil type idea. Disembodied hands continued on the 3rd one like cherub wings but with an element of threat and control making the figure like a hostage. The last shot, of my backside, when hung in a bar in Stoke led to the comment “he’s got a neat little arse” from the bar man, who didn’t realise I was hanging the work but also the model. He cringed when realised it was me. On a separate note, within a month of that I had been walking along the canal in Stoke with mates and overheard a Welsh girl walking behind me describe me in a beautiful accent as, “ooh he got a disastrous ass..” (these conflicts of description led me to some ambivalence about my appearance in my later years…) these self portraits are the first four. There are more to come #artdegree #photoshoot #queerartist #queerartistsofinstagram #queerskinhead #selfportrait #blackandwhite (at Toxteth, L8) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWLcpMcMH88/?utm_medium=tumblr