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here's some stuff about me and my art and going to uni while also being in the closet and coming out as trans. finished my first ever exhibition at college in 2013, didn't get to control how it was displayed and honestly thought framing them ruined them but Aight
sold one to my old graphics tutor, mum claimed one and i ended up giving her the bigger one later. packed for uni, and imagine being able to store things in your student bedroom
someone in our half of the student halls microwaved nothing on like the first day living there.
but at least we could play mario 64 at night.
anyway, probably the first experiment i did at uni. intended to be taken apart as seperate A4 sheets once complete. kinda liked them while they were stuck together though.
someone kneed the door to our halls and it broke. they were okay.
next experiment, on cardboard from the paper i'd bought. the second image became my favourite reaction image to bigots online for a while.
taking photos on uni trips to liverpool that i'd use in my second year to make an art book.
at this point i really liked dragging paint with a long strip of cardboard, was trying it on a pre-painted surface. ended up hanging it in a artwork hanging tutorial session but it's a very bendy surface.
more dragging paint experiments. really liked the red accent in the third one, second one was watered down paint, first was like the red one in the previous tweet.
around this time i openly came out as trans, and for the first time in person experienced religious based transphobia and homophobia? i'll spare you the screenshots of that. i think the person that did it apologised eventually.
little A4 experiments that i wouldn't find a use for until later.
a little mock exhibition we had to work as a small group to produce, including a catalogue. this work was called 20/20, installed as part of "apollonian and dionysian". my work went down the wall, across the floor, and into someone elses work. only the white sheets are mine.
this was the later use of the A4 experiments, i found a use for them and made photo collages with more paint on them.
also around the time of our first proper essay. now you know how to use harvard referencing.
before i forget and mess up the thread replying to the wrong thing, probably my favourite photo i used in the photocollages.
my final work in my first year was weird. i wanted to make something about aura migraines, figured projecting it onto something i looked at almost every day would work. the video i made was slowly changing, a representation of one part of my aura hallucinations.
i wish i could have only projected the changing bit but i wasn't clever and was stressed and didn't think to actually block part of the projector lens. but then, might have also been banned in the exhibition risk assessment.
may 22nd 2014, voting day, or the day the geese took up residence outside the student halls.
this was also the last time i was ever allowed to vote in the uk, every vote since i've been fucked around proving i exist and they never registered me properly.
went home from uni and legally changed my name to alice and then there were bad things and the summer sucked severely! but then i went back to uni and it was okay again
we start the second year off strong with a new notes and art book
we then get spooked exploring the 'to be renovated' abandoned fifth floor of the mellor building
this year painting on masking tape and covering this wall became a theme
it continued.
then the period where i went to exhibitions in spode factory just to photograph the floors and walls
saw underworld for the first time and rick smith signed my ticket
came back the next day and straight into the studio to make a painting with the notes i'd taken on my first trip to london
i'd been making an art book for a few months at this time, decided to focus on it and finish it. seagull photos returned, experiences of misgendering and transphobia and needing alcohol to get anything done documented.
i forgot to put my name on Sinethesis, but i'm glad i didn't in hindsight. its nobody, its no one.
taking a break at art book because i don't wanna flood you all and i want to rest now
