Party Trick

Year
2025 - Present Time

Location
Clovis, CA

Project Type
Independent

Equipment + Software
Sony a7iii - Lightroom - Photoshop - Polaroid Close Up

Status

Ongoing

Exhibtion

F Stop Photo Gallery - Fresno, CA - Group Exhibition (Photography, Pity Party)

Fresno State M Street Gallery, Day of Giving - Group Exhibition (Screen print, Acrimony)

A small Collection of work taken in November, 2025. Part of a mixed media collection of work, digital photography, and screenprinting.

The photos show Nutmeg (Squirrel) and Iris (bunny) celebrating a birthday. One of both shared company and cheerfulness but with an underlying feeling of lonliness.

Addressing issues of liminality of loneliness, sexual Assault/Rape within party settings, and generational trauma.

A split edition of 17 screenprints depicting grieving processes after being assaulted. One print is called Deliverance and the other Acrimony. While both display the chaos of grieving and changing emotions through imagery and transparent layers over one another.

Deliverance (blue) is acceptance and the feeling of being frustrated, yes, but ultimately being set free. Acrimony is the initial feeling of despair, pity and shame or bitterness. Grieving the loss of a former self after a traumatic event like this, it's never pretty.

Both pieces are hand stitched with two mylar stars filled with glitter. Sewn with the help of my mother to show the shared trauma we have of varying forms of assault in party settings.