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09/02/2026

Transexual Salvation #6

Plexiglass, iridescent acrylic paint, hospital gown, saline bag, tube, tape.

There's a lot of blood when you get surgery, it just sort of appears. It's kinda novel at first, especially when you're drugged up. But then it becomes a maintenance thing, cleaning yourself and your body so you are not constantly dirty. And then it becomes gross, a sticky impure thing that accumulates. When I had ffs I had cuts on my scalp that refused to heal, and it was a constant battle of letting it dry and letting it bleed. I think q***r people have a weird relationship to our blood. It's something we were taught to fear because of what it could transmit, and how much we all lost because of it. But it's a part of us. And it can heal us too.

Also I ran out of fitting underscores songs :(

08/25/2026

Transexual Salvation #5 (never kill yourself)

Plexiglass, crystallized Metronidazole, medication bag, tube, lace, acrylic paint.

When you leave the hospital they give you all your s**t back in a bag. You were the one to put it there in the first place, but in the haze of post surgery, the drugs take over, and it becomes not your stuff, it's just a bag of s**t. And you just gotta deal with it.

08/22/2026

Transexual Salvation #4

Plexiglass, fluid bag, Ethernet cable, string, lamé fabric, plastic sheet, tape, surgery gown, paper clip, acrylic paint, nails

08/21/2026

Transexual Salvation #3

Plexiglass, nails, Velcro strap, AIC map pamphlet, Ethernet cable, compression mesh, acrylic candy box, earbuds, found crochet rose, yarn, lace.

Sometimes people who love you won't love you as much when you're trans. And you understand that their love hurts now because it's misplaced and inconsiderate. But f**k em.

08/20/2026

Transexual Salvation #2

Plexiglass, medical mesh, iv bag, hair tie, 21+ concert wristband, hospital gown, syringe, aluminum thumb tacks, Velcro strap, acrylic paint

There's an amount of ecstasy as you wake up from a gender, affirming surgery. A sort of warmth of understanding that you've changed, and that the world can be a little brighter. And then you feel the pain settle in, and you are reminded you have a long ways to go still.

08/19/2026

Transexual Salvation #1

Plexiglass, medical sock, lamé fabric worn by wife on our first date, IV tubing, ice bag, screw, acrylic paint, Velcro strap, plastic bag closer.

More recently I've been fixated on how to speak about my transition through my artwork. I have always been profoundly interested in trash and waste, so I began to hoard all of the medical detritus associated with me and my wife's gender affirming surgeries. There is something beautiful in the ephemera of change, objects used in the process of creating and shaping the self. This is the first of eight sculptures in this series I made at SAIC, and a I think a breakthrough for my art practice.

07/10/2026

Surgery Piece 2025

One of the final pieces I was working on before graduate school. I pushed myself a lot with this one and I feel very proud of what I ended up doing, but can't help but feel like ideas got a little muddled in the chaos. There are literal pieces of me in it so I do feel like it's my real baby.

I'll do my best to list the materials I remember.

Surgery blanket, bag with some hair and scab, ribbon, cable, acrylic on canvas, fake goyard bag, tattoo second skin, underwear, supreme sticker, hospital wristbands, college postcard, hospital sock, oyster sauce label, Chinese job business card, perfume box. On wooden frame.

And last but not least, a literal piece of my forehead taken out during my surgery. It's in the jar right there. I may take it o it and make it into another piece, but that's later.

04/16/2026

Life update: One year of tattooing in the books, and I'm going to be starting my MFA this summer at SAIC's low residency program. Tattooing has been a new muse in my practice, and I'm very proud of how far I've come in such a short time. I love how much it interacts with identity, transformation and abstraction in such permanent terms. I see myself doing this for a long time. I'm also excited to start my MFA, explore SAIC and Chicago while being able to keep my life in Seattle.

This painting is a distillation of many of the themes in my work and its scale allows it to really engulf the viewer. The tattoo was my first done on a human (myself) a year ago, and is a bridge between where I was and where I'm going. It didn't heal the cleanest but you live and you learn lol.

I'm also sad to say I've left my first Seattle art studio. It was where I really came into myself as an artist after undergrad and also where I learned to tattoo. To leave is to change and it was time. My new space is almost ready, and I'm excited to continue my practice there.

If you've engaged with my art or gotten a tattoo from me, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. I'm so grateful to wake up every day and choose creation. I love you!

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