RE-USE RE-PURPOSE RE-IMAGINE
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Swimmin’ Allong
Made with reclaimed fabric scraps from the City Sewing Room (a fantastic resource for fabric artists in St.Louis), these fish are inspired by the fish of the Great Lakes. These fabric collages can be hung or draped, or used to patch or cover holes.
First hand sewn, using intricate stitches drawn from embroidery traditions, these fish were then machine sewn into the environments that hold them.
- In Deep Water 12x12in
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Among Abandoned Tiles 12x20in
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In the Algea 12x36in
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Critters
Made from reclaimed wire, beads, buttons and fabric scraps from the City Sewing Room, these critters are comfortable in many environments. The spiders climb and crawl, weaving their webs of whimsy in any space. Paula the rabbit, an art doll inspired by my grandmother’s doll-making practice, is perfectly comfortable on a windowsill, and almost as happy on a shelf although she misses lounging in the sun, and needs plenty of light to work by.
- everyone is beautiful and we’ve all gotta eat
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Paula Workin’ Hard
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Paula Hardly Workin’
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Territory Dispute
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Bright Places
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En Movimiento
I screenprinted hundreds of monarch butterflies, symbols of transformation and migration, on diverted velum for this installation. Most of them made it. The birds were screenprinted on scrap watercolor paper, their wings are in motion - the visual language for this motion is drawn from the comics space.
- Full Installation
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Birds, Closeup
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Feeding Frenzy
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Leftovers
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Prints, Scraps, Experiments
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2D adaption
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Selection of Sketchbook Pages
I use pocket sized notebooks, usually from secondhand stores, for my sketchbook practice. I generally fill 3-6 of these in a calendar year. They’re a meditative practice, a place to warm up, doodle, study and archive. You can find more from my sketchbooks on my substack - https://camscomics.substack.com/
- Moth Poem
- Line Doodle
- Color Study
- Clickity-klack
- Value Study
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Down by the River
Three friends find a body by a river... that's not all they find. It’s roughly 20 pages and loosely about friendship and vigilante justice - and how when the power of love isn’t enough sometimes its good to have a vengeful ghost on your side. The whole thing is free to read on Tapas https://tapas.io/series/Down-by-the-River.
- Selected Pages from Down by the River
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Breakhappy
Breakhappy is a short comic on the right to repair, how we build utopia, and the power of knowing a guy. I wrote it for a class on disability justice, and the whole Breakhappy extended universe (two comics planned!) has a disability justice bent. You can get it from me in person, or stumble upon it at a few comic shops and libraries.
- Selected pages from BreakHappy
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Waste Not Want Not
Waste Not Want Not is an 8 page (1page folded) mini-zine that I hand to people in queer spaces imagining a fun and silly way to magically, medically transition. The series gets longer and sillier on tapas https://tapas.io/episode/3240029
- Waste Not Want Not pt 1 complete