THank you so so so muchhhh @tullydeluxe and @onetrickponygallery for including me in this amazing show.
I would consider this my very first cohesive piece of art I have created imbued with the lifeblood to go off n scurry along through the great tradgedies.
yuh.
Trace Black
Removed from the body, strips of skin can stretch so far. It is my bones, therefore, that are the limiting features of my existence, 2024
Ink Tattooed Leather Pants
Dimensions Variable
cocaine kate, ballpoint pen and sharpie in my pocket notebooks, 2023-2025
top: copy of an early aughts tabloid cover that first sent kate to rehab
bottom: image I drew when I accidentally did half a bag of cocaine and got autistically paralyzed for ~5 hours and this is literally the only physical movement I made in the first hour
Esme just reminded me that I painted her portrait two years ago today. That’s fucking crazy.
I had only started making art 9 months prior, in rehab, and I’m typing this out now—in rehab.
This last 2 and a half years of rehab sandwich with a slice of psych ward in between has been 1,000,000 calories of live, laugh, love.
My destiny has come to manifest and thank god I didn’t od. This bitch is putting the bicostal in lgbt that’s just my #starfactor.
New York, I’m so grateful to have spedran you these past couple years 🙏 Im locking into these frequencies, tuning my vibes; ill never stop loving anyone I’ve ever loved especially you you’re my number one so trustttt I’ll be back and more zen and lit than eva 🤞
anyways here are some paintings I made my first summer as an artist when I had absolutely no idea what I was doing (I still don’t).
Trace 🫶
