REJECTED!

Media:
Pillowfort Zebra Stripe Accent Rug for Kids, Cinema4D

ig: @kiuail

Media:
Pillowfort Zebra Stripe Accent Rug for Kids, Cinema4D

ig: @kiuail

This piece chronicles one of my recurring childhood nightmares, in which colorful shapes terrorized me and I would wake trapped in sleep paralysis with a haggard figure standing over my bed.

Media:
Adobe Illustrator

Submission guidelines:

Anyone who self-identifies as disabled is welcome to send in submissions.All submissions should include an image representing your bed, as well as words accompanying the image.The image can be a photo of your bed, an illustration you have made, a small comic, etc. If you want to send in more than one option you can send up to three images, but only one will be chosen The words can be as short as two words and a maximum of 500 words, and can take the form of poetry, fiction or nonfiction. If your submission is chosen, your images and words will be published together in the zine.

My Submission:

BED

I collect things in my bed...
like crusted discharge on flannel sheets
books I never read
awkward dreams of walking running climbing
and sweat
lipstick smudges parched vibrators
hair ties silk bandanas octopus clips
unsealed return envelopes in unopened mail
cat hair computer charger
blood stains night serum
cookie crumbs thera-band
and clothes that smell like spice and dust

Status:

REJECTED!

Natalee Decker (she/her) is a Chicago born Los Angeles based artist currently pursuing her undergraduate degree at UCLA, majoring in Design | Media Arts and minoring in Disability Studies. Employing a multidisciplinary and ever shifting approach, she investigates the disability aesthetic and the transformation of scarred memories. She is a white queer disabled cis-gender woman.

IG: @notalizard

Media:
Maya, Daz 3D, Adobe After Effects

ig: @iris.parts

ig: @metalqueersolid

Cenotaph 1 is a looping video that combines drawn animation and machine learning methods. Subtitle tracks were algorithmically generated based on a corpus of text on the subject of isolation, imaginary architecture, and interiority. Animations were part of a daily animation practice by the artist during the pandemic lockdown. The individual animations are listed by subject:
Disease
Eschaton
Predation
Destruction and Regrowth
Perception
Surveillance
Insight
A Monument
Process
Home

Drink Me is an activism and sustainability project. The work focus on pharmaceutical pollution that affects humans and other species' lives. People should be considered and educated about how to correctly recycled, refuse their unused and expired drugs.

Submission guidelines:

Anyone who self-identifies as disabled is welcome to send in submissions.All submissions should include an image representing your bed, as well as words accompanying the image.The image can be a photo of your bed, an illustration you have made, a small comic, etc. If you want to send in more than one option you can send up to three images, but only one will be chosen The words can be as short as two words and a maximum of 500 words, and can take the form of poetry, fiction or nonfiction. If your submission is chosen, your images and words will be published together in the zine.

My Submission:

BED

I collect things in my bed...
like crusted discharge on flannel sheets
books I never read
awkward dreams of walking running climbing
and sweat
lipstick smudges parched vibrators
hair ties silk bandanas octopus clips
unsealed return envelopes in unopened mail
cat hair computer charger
blood stains night serum
cookie crumbs thera-band
and clothes that smell like spice and dust

Status:

REJECTED!

Natalee Decker (she/her) is a Chicago born Los Angeles based artist currently pursuing her undergraduate degree at UCLA, majoring in Design | Media Arts and minoring in Disability Studies. Employing a multidisciplinary and ever shifting approach, she investigates the disability aesthetic and the transformation of scarred memories. She is a white queer disabled cis-gender woman.

IG: @notalizard

Media:
mechanical pencil, colored pencil

Project Point is a radical grassroots movement paving the way for unscrupulous urinators to get the medical care they need — genitalia augmentation for the perfect laminar flow pee stream. Through research and development, public fundraising, and community advocacy, we combat stigma and empower individuals with life-saving resources for a safer and cleaner future.

eden 2.0 is a fantasy garden that challenges notions of space and gravity. The room constantly flips – causing the ground to alternate between the sky and a grassy plane. When a viewer is standing on the sky, the trees above mimic a rainforest canopy, and when the room flips, the viewer finds themselves standing amongst the trees, looking up at a tent in the sky. The walls of the room are projected with a lush StyleGAN artificial intelligence that is trained on a dataset of plant life and architecture. Viewers can also explore the inside of the tent, which is projected with a StyleGAN output trained on a dataset of fruit, mold, and organs.

Media:
Adobe After Effects

For this assignment, I wanted to compare the methods of motion for different animals and see what commonalities they might share. For instance, a frog mid-leap becomes a eagle. In order to bring focus exclusively on their movements, the animals are represented by simplistic rounded shapes and skeletal armatures. The animals appear in the following order: human, emperor penguin, Labrador retriever, tree frog, bald eagle, and horse.

Media:
Adobe After Effects

As I was rooting around my house for materials, I found a bucket of paper cranes that I had folded when I was in elementary school. As a child, I was convinced that if I folded a thousand paper cranes, I would be granted a wish, like in the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr. Though my nine year old self did not have the stamina to fold that many cranes at once, I have continued to fold little paper cranes out of gum and candy wrappers, receipts, sticky notes, expired coupons, and whatever other scraps of paper I have with me. Now, I treat them as physical sigils of good luck, and some part of me still believes in them.

I strung together all the paper cranes I could find around my house into a single chain that measured about 8.5 feet long. Then I mixed a solution of Borax and boiling water and poured it over the pile of paper cranes and let it crystallize for 24 hours, resulting in the sculpture seen in the second photoset. To me, crystallization represents bot the destruction and preservation of an object over time. My childhood belief in the whimsy and power of paper cranes has faded, but it has not disappeared. I still regard paper cranes as a symbol of luck and the nostalgia of childhood.

As I was rooting around my house for materials, I found a bucket of paper cranes that I had folded when I was in elementary school. As a child, I was convinced that if I folded a thousand paper cranes, I would be granted a wish, like in the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr. Though my nine year old self did not have the stamina to fold that many cranes at once, I have continued to fold little paper cranes out of gum and candy wrappers, receipts, sticky notes, expired coupons, and whatever other scraps of paper I have with me. Now, I treat them as physical sigils of good luck, and some part of me still believes in them.

As I was rooting around my house for materials, I found a bucket of paper cranes that I had folded when I was in elementary school. As a child, I was convinced that if I folded a thousand paper cranes, I would be granted a wish, like in the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr. Though my nine year old self did not have the stamina to fold that many cranes at once, I have continued to fold little paper cranes out of gum and candy wrappers, receipts, sticky notes, expired coupons, and whatever other scraps of paper I have with me. Now, I treat them as physical sigils of good luck, and some part of me still believes in them.

As I was rooting around my house for materials, I found a bucket of paper cranes that I had folded when I was in elementary school. As a child, I was convinced that if I folded a thousand paper cranes, I would be granted a wish, like in the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr. Though my nine year old self did not have the stamina to fold that many cranes at once, I have continued to fold little paper cranes out of gum and candy wrappers, receipts, sticky notes, expired coupons, and whatever other scraps of paper I have with me. Now, I treat them as physical sigils of good luck, and some part of me still believes in them.

A mosaic of AI generated videos using RunwayML trained on BDSM Hentai images found online, and BDSM Hentai images mapped on 3D models of familiar personal spaces. A study of both artistic style and subject and how AI interacts with these imagined bodies. Instagram deleted both the videos and images for nudity looool

A mosaic of AI generated videos using RunwayML trained on BDSM Hentai images found online, and BDSM Hentai images mapped on 3D models of familiar personal spaces. A study of both artistic style and subject and how AI interacts with these imagined bodies. Instagram deleted both the videos and images for nudity looool

Media:
Pillowfort Zebra Stripe Accent Rug for Kids, Cinema4D

ig: @kiuail

Media:
mechanical pencil, colored pencil

Inspired by the seemingly endless cycle of superficial daily tasks and
obligations, Re-peat aims to capture the tedium of everyday life through
a hypnotic, animated abstraction.

[ID: A peculiar polka dot side-table.]

Submission guidelines:

Anyone who self-identifies as disabled is welcome to send in submissions.All submissions should include an image representing your bed, as well as words accompanying the image.The image can be a photo of your bed, an illustration you have made, a small comic, etc. If you want to send in more than one option you can send up to three images, but only one will be chosen The words can be as short as two words and a maximum of 500 words, and can take the form of poetry, fiction or nonfiction. If your submission is chosen, your images and words will be published together in the zine.

My Submission:

BED

I collect things in my bed...
like crusted discharge on flannel sheets
books I never read
awkward dreams of walking running climbing
and sweat
lipstick smudges parched vibrators
hair ties silk bandanas octopus clips
unsealed return envelopes in unopened mail
cat hair computer charger
blood stains night serum
cookie crumbs thera-band
and clothes that smell like spice and dust

Status:

REJECTED!

Natalee Decker (she/her) is a Chicago born Los Angeles based artist currently pursuing her undergraduate degree at UCLA, majoring in Design | Media Arts and minoring in Disability Studies. Employing a multidisciplinary and ever shifting approach, she investigates the disability aesthetic and the transformation of scarred memories. She is a white queer disabled cis-gender woman.

IG: @notalizard

Submission guidelines:

Anyone who self-identifies as disabled is welcome to send in submissions.All submissions should include an image representing your bed, as well as words accompanying the image.The image can be a photo of your bed, an illustration you have made, a small comic, etc. If you want to send in more than one option you can send up to three images, but only one will be chosen The words can be as short as two words and a maximum of 500 words, and can take the form of poetry, fiction or nonfiction. If your submission is chosen, your images and words will be published together in the zine.

My Submission:

BED

I collect things in my bed...
like crusted discharge on flannel sheets
books I never read
awkward dreams of walking running climbing
and sweat
lipstick smudges parched vibrators
hair ties silk bandanas octopus clips
unsealed return envelopes in unopened mail
cat hair computer charger
blood stains night serum
cookie crumbs thera-band
and clothes that smell like spice and dust

Status:

REJECTED!

Natalee Decker (she/her) is a Chicago born Los Angeles based artist currently pursuing her undergraduate degree at UCLA, majoring in Design | Media Arts and minoring in Disability Studies. Employing a multidisciplinary and ever shifting approach, she investigates the disability aesthetic and the transformation of scarred memories. She is a white queer disabled cis-gender woman.

IG: @notalizard