Tintype by my mentor Geoffrey Wallang 🖤
04.05.2025 17:50
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Tintype by my mentor Geoffrey Wallang 🖤
Perhaps one day things will be different, but pretending they don’t exist won’t change them. Dissociation only does so much. Incorporating these images is a step towards acceptance, towards compassion, towards healing.
That being said - I miss how things were, the things I could do and show up for that are no longer easily accessible. It’s easy to put on a front that everything is ok, to pretend, to run. It will not save you or change your circumstance. Disease thrives in avoidance.
It feels daunting when I actually sit with an examine everything “wrong” with my body. Trauma manifests itself through illness - it is hard to carry the weight of both illness and trauma and their cyclical nature. Learning to embrace these parts of myself instead of abandoning them is key.
Been using my medical images (MRIs, Xray, Bone Scan) to make new work. Thinking a lot about the connection to the medical image and the artistic image. Chronic illness is heartbreaking in so many ways, but reframing my illness through an artistic lens is healing and transformative ❤️🩹
Web Series - on going spider web cyanotype series I am working on 🕷️🕸️
Wet plate collodion portrait of Audie & Emile (2023)
16mm film still from my film Paris Model (2021)
Mordançage on found 1940’s striptease film
I wish I could tell the moon how much I like it
Also shout out to all the poor east van kids who grew up at skeena
I had a dream about my aunty who passed away recently. She was cruising in a scooter at skeena smoking three cigarettes. Always iconic - even in the afterlife ❤️
Self portrait of Brittney photographed from the back in front of a black background. They are sitting centre of the frame wearing a black velvet dress and a light pink coloured medical camp corset with fan lacing. Their hair is dark brown/black, curly and shoulder length.
Currently working on a project about medical bracing - self portrait (2024) assisted by Anya & Divya
They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.
Last week I got DMs from Gazans that the eSims we sent them and kept topped up allowed them to graduate university. This is why eSims are still necessary.
Donate: bit.ly/eSimsRUs
#ConnectingGaza
New! We have a late show! 9pm to 5am. Now thru Feb 18, we're featuring 5 sumptuously analogue short films by East Van's own @brittneyappleby.bsky.social .
Our theme this week is Gothic Romance, and this new post-watershed timeslot lets us stretch our legs into places best explored after dark!
Showing some films at the East Van Vodville Cinema for Vodville After Dark 9pm - 5am until Feb 18th 🖤 Come take a peak 👁️
trans liberation forever
A flatbed steenbeck editor for 16mm film. There are multiple rollers that allow the film to wrap around and pass it through to the viewer, where it is then seen on a screen. On the screen there are a pair of women’s legs with stockings and white high heels.
Editing some 16mm film
How many who now mourn David Lynch masked for him? The world is full of vulnerable people (actually all of us, after enough reinfections), and no one is masking for them -
variety.com/2024/film/ne...
I told the crows what you did to me, good luck going anywhere in east van again
a still of Joan Chen as Josie from Twin Peaks calling into a black rotary phone in a wooded cabin-style house. she's wearing a red sweater.
me calling to ask if you've donated to Crips for eSims for Gaza yet.
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
#ConnectingGaza
RIP David Lynch ❤️ ☕️ 🌲
First wet plate in a while 🪞
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Dear #Yukoners -
Canada's first film about Long COVID was made in the Yukon:
youtu.be/p8HPBmtHzEg?...
Photo by my friend Marc V Williams 🤍
I want to haunt you
