CHARLIE
DARLING

IT'S FUN TO BE CLASSIFIED!

Ongoing series featured in Exquisite Relations and Info Show 2024

2024-2025


blown-up newspaper headline reading 'It's fun to be classified- another big gang of drags for your pleasure page thirteen' in olive green crystals. the headline is surrounded by lace doilies outlined with gold puffy paint
for your pleasure (8" x 11" archival photo print, Swarovski crystals, washi tape, doilies, and puffy paint)
photograph of the artist lying face down, being fucked from above in purple light. the photo is cut out and lined with pearls, above which is a printed paper of rabbits and the painted text 'Librarians will help the cause of literature by rejecting this unsavory stew of sex, liquor, and street language -Library Journal' under a strip of pink lace tape
help the cause (11" x 8" archival photo print, 千代紙 [chiyogami paper], washi tape, acrylic paint on transparency film, and pearls)
nude photo of the artist sitting in contrapposto outlined by pearls and surrounded by a pink butterfly print paper and sanrio washi tapes and packaging. on the butterfly paper are sanrio stickers reading 'i will give him my body and what he does with it is none of my business'
my body (11" x 8" archival photo print, pearls, washi tape, ゆめかわいい [yumekawaii] stickers & ephemera, and acrylic paint)
aged book page with the chapter heading 41 and the text 'where are my breasts? where are my breasts?. between the chapter number and the chapter text is the collaged text 'the strange adventures of TransFagDrag', under the chapter text is a painting of an anime-style figure wearing only a micro bikini, with their top surgery scars peaking out
TransFagDrag (11" x 8" archival photo prints, 千代紙 [chiyogami paper], acrylic paint on transparency film, and ゆめかわいい [yumekawaii] stickers)
blown-up section of poster for the lesbian herstory archives reading 'We've got your past' in large letters and the history of the archive in smaller letters. the colors of the posters are glitched between the original purple and an aqua blue. above the text is a strip of photos of the artist in high femme drag with hokusai's the wave painted on her cheek. where one drag photo should be is an excerpt from the kama sutra instructing men on wooing female eunuchs
keep their desires secret (8" x 11" archival photo prints, photocard print, washi tape, and acrylic paint on transparency film)
cover of a book with title 'i am loving (strangely)' across the top and 'Not since Myra Brenkinridge has there been such a funny and bitter satire about transsexuals!' along the bottom. the author's names is party obscured by pink lace. the outline of an oval between the two pieces of text has been cut out and the original image replaced with a cropped and rotated version of the earlier photo of the artist having sex. the white space of the cover is filling with purple and pink decora-style stickers
loving (strangely) (11" x 8" archival photo prints, washi tape, and ゆめかわいい [yumekawaii] stickers)
a page of eight toploaders with embelished trading cards of trans-related materials from social media, historical literature, trans periodicals, and more.
trading cards #1 (~10" x ~7" photocard prints, Swarovski crystals, washi tape, ゆめかわいい [yumekawaii] stickers, acrylic paint, and toploaders)
crops of individual trading cards on a background of sanrio stationary
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