I started making these sort of... free association collages(?) earlier this year. I've been thinking a lot about AI "art" and how vapid it is, and figured I could create something way funnier, sillier, and more unique. It turned into just a fun way to fuck with my friends and make something that gets a big reaction from them, but I've also been rotating them as laptop backgrounds.

Bear

It Takes a Village, 2023
Adobe Photoshop CC on MacBook Pro

The final piece in the triptych, It Takes a Village takes the form of a Hallmark pregnancy announcement card. The bold new direction taken in this piece almost defies explanation. The gallery encourages you to read the image breakdown in order to understand the display.

• Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
• EVA-01 (Evangelion)
• Ralsei (Deltarune)
• Positive pregnancy test
• Steven After Not Surviving (Steven Universe)
• Sans (Undertale)
• Springtrap (Five Nights at Freddy's)
• Positive pregnancy test
• JUUL logo (pictured as brand on pregnancy test stick)
• Vape cloud
• Hallmark logo
• Scott Cawthon YEVEY (FNAF Reddit banner image circa 2019)
• Snow globe
• ANNOUNCEMENT!!
• Minecraft Cobblestone texture
• It takes a village to raise a child in Webdings