Hand cut paper collage in black, white, gray, and red on a white background. Library check out stamps are partially visible. Text reads “And the least?”
Grief Poem No. 12 2026.03.04
I’ve had the forbidden Taco Bell sauce packet and the forbidden travel toothpaste but this is the first time I’ve seen the forbidden churu lmfao
Hand cut paper collage in grays, greens, and oranges. Many abstract shapes reminiscent of leaves or flower petals. Text reads, “fuck if I really know what happened”
Grief Poem No. 11 2026.02.08
Hand cut paper collage in shades of orange and black on white background. Several hands are partially visible. Text reads “Would you say you’re a loner?”
Grief Poem No. 10 2026.02.08
For the first time in over 30 years, FDA has approved a “true generic version” of Premarin. “It took a very long time to approve a generic [for Premarin] because it’s so complicated,” said Janet Woodcock, who served as CDER director for over 20 years.
https://cancerletter.com/clinical/20260123_1/
Hand cut paper collage on white background in shades of red, pink, and gray. Teeth and a partial silhouette of dancers are visible. Text reads “What about when you’re walking around the city?”
Grief Poem No. 9 2026.01.27
Premarin’s 84-year hold on the market ends as FDA approves a generic version
Trade secret protections helped the hormone drug resist generic entry and outlast safety controversies—including link to cancer
https://cancerletter.com/clinical/20260123_1/
Cover of the January 23, 2026 issue of The Cancer Letter. Black background with a collage in the shape of a rearing horse composed of vintage Premarin ads. “Premarin’s 84-Year Hold on the Market Ends As FDA Approves a Generic Version Trade secret protections helped the hormone drug resist generic entry and outlast safety concerns - including link to cancer”
Loooooovved working on this piece for @cancerletter.com !!
Hand cut paper collage on white background in shades of red, yellow, and gray. Men’s faces are partly visible. Text reads “the voices, the occasional flying rock”
Grief Poem No. 8 2026.01.13
Hand cut collage on white background in shades of red, or gangs, and gray. Text reads “Do you think about your own mortality?”
Grief Poem No. 7 2026.01.13
Rhythm of the Night hive stays winning
Hand cut paper collage with white background. Multiple overlapping abstract shapes in greens, browns, and oranges. Paper has been scratched in places. Text reads “I Love You”
Grief Poem No. 6 2025.12.18
You wouldn’t really be able to tell from the art I make now, but I was so moved by seeing Byzantine art and icons in person that I started drawing
My heat finally got fixed today! (I live in Chicago lol)
INDEED
Saving The Children by Killing Them: Redemptive Sacrifice in the Ideologies of Jim Jones and Ronald Reagan David Chidester It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it. -U.S. Army officer, after the destruction of Ben Tre, Vietnam, 1968 I’d rather see them lay like that than to see them have to die like the Jews did. - Resident of Jonestown, Guyana I would rather see my little girls die now, still believing in God, than have them grow up under communism and one day die no longer believing in God. - Resident of California, USA We win when we go down. - Jim Jones Win one for the Gipper. - Ronald Reagan On November 18, 1978, over 900 Americans living in the cooperative agricultural community known as Jonestown entered into a collective mass murder-suicide. Many, perhaps most, of the adult participants understood the Jonestown mass suicide as a redemptive act.
Obviously cannot wait to find out where this is going, but also reminded me of this academic article opener that has been rattling around my brain for 8 straight years
Bandcamp Friday!!
Heavily overlapping paper collage in autumnal color scheme. Text reads “Adapteur NOW WE’RE TALKING”
Made some cover art for my buddy’s new musical project, Adapteur. Check out the single “Now We’re Talking” on bandcamp! adapteur.bandcamp.com/track/now-we...
Hand cut paper collage with abstract green overlay. Overlapping tessellated pieces in grays, greens, and orange. Text reads “y voice was his voice, hitting b”
Grief Poem No. 5 2025.12.02
Light pink background with a repeating pattern of a butchered hog and an automatic rifle in dark brown
Part of my final project for a book illustration class - front/end pages for a lush hardcover reprint of my favorite book, Michael J. Arlen’s An American Verdict
Hand cut paper collage with tessellated abstract shapes in primarily red, blues, and grays. Some partial faces are visible. Text reads “Oh it was so bad but—“
Grief Poem No. 4 2025.11.16
I have gotten so good at using spinach before it gets gross (you gotta immediately layer in a bunch of paper towels and then it’ll keep for 2+ weeks) but grapes are the final boss
Hand cut paper collage comprised of black & white images. An androgynous Black face is the central image but heavily obscured via cutouts. Text reads “Before”
Hand cut paper collage in mostly black & white with small flashes of blue and red. The faces of several midcentury white businessmen are partially visible. Text reads “Did you feel like you needed an apology from him for lying to you?”
Grief Poem No. 3, 2025.11.03
Hand cut paper collage in tans reds and blacks. Thin vertical lines on the left side with more abstract shapes on the right. A hand is visible. Text reads “Your Parting Words”
Grief Poem No. 2 2025.10.22
Poster with a central silhouette of the Statue of Liberty. Within the silhouette there is a collage of the famous photo of a sailor kissing a woman to celebrate the end of WWII. Text reads “Prop Thtr presents Diary of an Erotic Life. Inspired by Lulu: A Monster Tragedy by Frank Wedekind. Written & Directed by Olivia Lilley. Devised by the Ensemble Valeria Rosero Kate Black Spence Kenya Ann Hall Chelsea Turner Mary Iris Loncto Caitlin Schantz & Dylan Fahoome
Program cover with central figure composed of a collage in greys blacks and greens featuring chain link fence and riot police. The figure’s head is a pillow and it is being held up by a hook. Text reads: Concrete Content presents The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh, Directed by Ricardo Gamboa at the Africaribe Cultural Center in Humboldt Park
Reimagined cover of Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. A bloody mouth and nose are visible with smears of blood suggesting the rest of a face on a white background
EP cover. Brightly colored hand cut paper collage with overlapping abstract shapes. Text reads Sample Syrup in metallic cursive
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www.cyrusfinegan.com
Paper collage composed mostly of ripped abstract shapes. Hands and a candle are visible. Text reads “He didn’t have an answer.”
Grief Poem No. 1
Hand cut paper collage in grays yellows and pinks. An nypd truck and officer are visible along with the silhouette of a man in a headlock. Text reads “or pretended not to notice”
Hand cut paper collage in grays, greens, and blues. There are two bold black rectangles at a right angle in the lower right corner. A man’s face is partially visible in the background. Text reads “a pistol in hand, the barrel mushroomed and split”
There is nothing trans people can do that will not encourage reactionary politics. They don’t want us to exist, and ceding ground on the (literally just factually accurate) “birthing person” language isn’t going to do anything but push us further into the margins even among our alleged allies.
