Empress Trash

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hybrid artist x builder x curator | pigment • glitch • motion • AI • metaverse debris • immersion + play | #cc0

hybrid artist x builder x curator | pigment • glitch • motion • AI • metaverse debris • immersion + play | #cc0

hybrid artist x builder x curator | pigment • glitch • motion • AI • metaverse debris • immersion + play | #cc0

America's 250th Pin-Up, the UGC Video Challenge, + Revisiting Damsels 🖤
A timed birthday open edition on Transient, video clips in Decentraland, and looking back at the body's road to recovery.

Oracle Closes Tomorrow, School is in Session, + the UGC Challenge 🖤
A super quick updates roundup: Artifact #2 OE closing, SheFi scholarship, UGC video challenge, and 24/7 open studio doors 🖤

Solstice at My Atelier, Cycladic Venus is Live on Transient, + Where to Catch My Streams
My first Open Studio in Decentraland, a 4,500-year-old goddess reborn as an open edition, and a week of YouTube streams ~ come hang.

Decentraland, Decentraland, Decentraland
<3

Lotus Blooms + RGBMTL Curator Debut + Emporium Printify Launch + GBM Update
BUSY WEEK ~!

GBM Auctions NOW LIVE, Physical Prints Incoming
imperial bazaar now open ~~ <3

Decentraland + SR Spring Cleaning
yes decentraland still exists

Cusp of Rebirth V1 Reveal
Happy Birthday to me! <3

Flesh and Metal
why this obsession won't let go

Patreon is live 🖤
discount code included for first month subscribers

Reflections on Sincretismo Digital Art Residency: Birthing "The Comet" in Mexico City
It's been a few since I wrote an article. I have been in holiday isolation/recovery mode. Last fall (that's September to December 2025 for the calendar purists), I dove headfirst into the Sincretismo Digital Art Residency hosted by the incredible Wait & Hope Foundation in Mexico City. If you've been following my X timeline, you know this was a game-changer for me, after years of residency rejections and weirdness, getting that acceptance email on October 6th had me ugly-crying in the best way...

Damsels: Part Deux
333 complete on ETH, New Artist Statement

Why I love VR ~ <3
thoughts about vr for fun, therapy, art, and profit

summerween: glitch songs of the summer part 2
I got my music distroed!

THE BIRTH OF DAMSELS
Originally written in July 2023 for a virtual gallery build on Oncyber with the Line project showcasing Damsels. Copied unedited for posterity. As an artist, I’ve always been fascinated by the human form, and it has been a consistent theme of mine through my trad art and crypto art career. Before Damsels the series, there were a lot of PROTO DAMSELS with my first works on OpenSea in Spring 2021, which I digitized, then glitched out of them. I’m still really proud of this series because it was...

Rant on Generative Art Hate
I’ve been an artist my entire life. I have a BFA and a long history of creation, so whether I’m a “real” artist is not up for debate in my mind. Even so, when I began using AI, I lost collectors and longtime supporters. People who already knew my situation acted as if I had suddenly become less of an artist or less of a person. That betrayal piled on top of the grief I already carried about possibly never drawing or painting again. I kept integrating AI into my practice anyway. I have to make...

remix it w/ no censorship (empress's edition)
onchain = censorship resistance

rodeo remix: paladin pinups
summary and art share of last weekends event

on censorship x my art
a ramble on censorship, techno-feminism and protest/performance art