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Salon de l’Empress
Jan 30
Patreon is live 🖤
I should have done this eons ago. After years of self-filtering, fighting flags, deboosts, weaponized moderation, straight-up censorship, and animosity in some way for my nudes on every platform, I’ve finally carved out a private space on Patreon: the Inner Sanctum. Everything I’ve held back is going there now: my full archive of nude artwork which includes glitch remixes, nude paintings, AI-work trained on my own paintings and soon to be body, the erotic stories I’ve been too nervous to writ...
Salon de l’Empress
Jan 24
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...
Salon de l’Empress
Dec 8
Damsels: Part Deux
As of right now, I'm minting 152 damsels to complete the 333 on ethereum / base as I intended when I set out with this collection in 2021. You can read my previous writing about the collection here: https://paragraph.com/@empresstrash/the-birth-of-damsels-1 The below writing is in part art statement to announce the completion of this portion of the collection and partly to log the historical context I feel this collection lays itself into. Thank you everyone who has supported me on this journ...
Salon de l’Empress
Nov 26
Why I love VR ~ <3
I was that little girl who watched Star Trek: TNG late-night Saturdays and dreamed of having a holodeck, so of course I love VR. I have played Beat Saber and done VR painting for a few years now and recently started streaming when I am in VR. I have shoulder/neck/right side injuries and pain issues which I have been dealing with for years from a lifetime of repetitive stress from manual labor, painting, and unfortunately compounded with injuries and trauma that was causing so many symptoms in...
Salon de l’Empress
Nov 23
summerween: glitch songs of the summer part 2
Continuation of the summerween saga - original post here: https://paragraph.com/@empresstrash/summerween-glitch-songs-of-the-summer?referrer=0x8469B7b08D30C63fEA3a248a198dE9D634B63d70 Previous episode of my AI music creation saga TL;DR: I have a concept album I made over the summer exploring grief using AI to create the music. I went to release it on SoundCloud and they rejected it, which made me super upset. I only had it released on Zora and Audius. NOW though, an online friend of mine poin...
Salon de l’Empress
Nov 18
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...
Salon de l’Empress
Nov 17
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...
Salon de l’Empress
Aug 29
remix it w/ no censorship (empress's edition)
In the glow of the remix's mechanics potential, where every post becomes a canvas for collective evolution, the call for 'switches' to erase unwanted layers rings hollow and stands as a shadow of systems some of us are trying to leave behind. I wholly celebrate remix as quote-tweeting on steroids, a tool that bull-runs engagement and democratizes narrative. Yet introducing deletion mechanics betrays the core promise of onchain building: resistance to censorship. What starts as a safeguard aga...
Salon de l’Empress
Aug 26
rodeo remix: paladin pinups
@empresstrash on Rodeo: "Paladin Pinup / glit..."Paladin Pinup / glitch ai painting Help me reimagine this work for Rodeo's remix party! How? Download → Remix → Post → ...https://rodeo.club This last weekend I had the pleasure of being the artist for Rodeo weekly remix event. The piece and theme I chose was Paladin Pinups. I have been exploring this theme at length spam posting on Zora, and wanted to see what the Rodeo community did with it. I wasn't disappointed. Why Paladin Pinups though? We...
Salon de l’Empress
Aug 21
on censorship x my art
Today, I received a dmca notice on my livestream (dreamweirdodanceclub.live) from Kick for a video on demand, which I never asked to be saved in the first place. I reached out to them to express my upset at this stating since I can't turn off the auto-save this fundamentally violates my consent because my livestream is intended to be just that a live performance, and now I get punished for something I didn't opt into? This incident is right on the heels of soundcloud refusing to distribute my...