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As a multimedia artist, I find myself blissfully existing most often in the world of photography. When I’m not thinking about dipping my hands or clay, I exist in a place between photographic nostalgic and archive-based intellect. Melding together meaning through objects in a queer perspective on today’s capitalist and American pop cultures.
Here is a link to my *normal* work. Think events, portraits, the like!
Commercial Work
Below you can find my archives [artistic]
BY YEAR:
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If it’s not working right now, that’s not my problem. I don’t run the department of transporation.
2025 [we’re 8 days in]
2024 [End of an Era]
2023 [Marlboro Red Era]
2022 [I like everything]
2021 [William goes to UIUC]
2020 [COVID means business]
2019 [Ok, I’m gay]
2015-2018 [What’s a camera?]
2002-2014 [Prehistoric]
Click, just click it!
If it’s not working right now, that’s not my problem. I don’t run the department of transporation.
2024 [End of an Era]
2023 [Marlboro Red Era]
2022 [I like everything]
2021 [William goes to UIUC]
2020 [COVID means business]
2019 [Ok, I’m gay]
2015-2018 [What’s a camera?]
2002-2014 [Prehistoric]
Some of my current favorite photographs, and a little bit about them:
The Fashion Network, Issue #11, “Garden of Destruction” (2023) :
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Lyric Theatre at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Book, music, and lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Based on the Poem by Joseph Moncure March
Danny Yoerges and Rachel Rizzuto, directors
Julie Jordan Gunn, conductor
A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage, Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1926 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written.
Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their New Orleans row house. After the colorful arrival of a slew of guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eyes land on a striking man named Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy. To quote the show, “One wrong turn the whole place would burn, but who would strike the match?”
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Heraldo is a drag queen and friend of mine who goes by the name “Lydia Ryder.” Taking a moment to bake and looking at themselves in their mirror, I shot a candid of Heraldo in a state between himself and herself. When does Heraldo become Lydia? In what instance is the human left behind and the drag put on?
Performing and putting on a look for a small-scale photoshoot, this composition speaks to not only the artistry and tedious details behind drag makeup, but an ongoing fascination with performance in photography.
Collaborating with Heraldo and Owen (another drag artist not pictured), we investigated and documented going from the self out of drag and the interrogation with the drag persona during this photoshoot. These images were included as part of William’s Summer of Rest & Relaxation and speaks to the artist’s interest and the entertainment they find in watching drag and drag queens.
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“Self Portrait 1948 (America’s Favorite Pastime)” takes inspiration compositionally and in its namesake from a Frida Kahlo self portrait. Creating a series of costumes and characters, in this instance a baseball-card headpiece, this self portrait contemplates forced masculinity in my youth.
Reminiscing on a lifelong interest in collecting, I wanted to contemplate on my fascination with baseball cards. Both collecting for the sake of objects but also picking baseball players I found either attractive or good looking, what to outsiders may have looked masculine and boyish was much more queer and gay in retrospect. This self portrait features me in blue face paint, while revealing my chest and underwear; balancing between tradition and self-expression, much like Kahlo did in her art and life, this portrait pays homage to the trailblazing painter, takes her compositional strength from the 1948 work, and puts it in the context of a closeted, Midwest youth.
Lyric Theatre at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Book, music, and lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Based on the Poem by Joseph Moncure March
Danny Yoerges and Rachel Rizzuto, directors
Julie Jordan Gunn, conductor
A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage, Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1926 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written.
Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their New Orleans row house. After the colorful arrival of a slew of guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eyes land on a striking man named Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy. To quote the show, “One wrong turn the whole place would burn, but who would strike the match?”
Lyric Theatre at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Book, music, and lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Based on the Poem by Joseph Moncure March
Danny Yoerges and Rachel Rizzuto, directors
Julie Jordan Gunn, conductor
A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage, Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1926 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written.
Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their New Orleans row house. After the colorful arrival of a slew of guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eyes land on a striking man named Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy. To quote the show, “One wrong turn the whole place would burn, but who would strike the match?”