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  JULY 8TH 2023. 

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  polaroid by Nadien  

   Nadien hit me up about showing work in her third Progress Report, a nonprofit art show rooted in Downtown LA and built on community, growth, and honest expression. I didn’t think twice. said yea. Dug into my archives pulled two past works that still speak to who I was. Then I got to work on something new. a piece that didn’t exist until that invitation gave me reason to create it. my progress.  
  Months passed, and the final work was done. 

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  self report " 

  collage on board  

  It started at my desk.  
  A pile of sketches & cartoon versions of me, just sitting there, waiting. I’d been trying to push something new out, and suddenly it clicked: my desk was the progress. Everything I’d made so far was right there. All I had to do now was bottle it.  

  I grabbed the biggest frame I could find in time ( 30x30 ) and started filling it with those sketches. But it needed a centerpiece. 

  So I painted a big slab of cardboard black, cut out my shadow self, and gave it life with white Posca dots as stars or glitter, depending on how you see it.

  Then I carved myself into it. My shape. My likeness.  
  It became more than art for me ... it became a mirror.  

  into space " 

  ( A LAZY FIRST START  )  

  canvas  

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  untitled " 

  ( PERFECTLY.  )  

  wood + construction paper  
  in shadow box.  

opening nite.

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  @jarritoz  

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  @sanxandre_  

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  @ijb0lstani  

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  @lalotheloc  

  polaroids by me   

  XXXOOO ARN  

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