What I Made in 2022 (1/2)

What did I make in 2022? More than can fit in one post, that's for sure. 

January

During one of my routine visits to Goodwill (secondhand shop), I found this giant photo canvas print of the Flat Iron Building in New York City and I thought "I bet I could fill that up with tiny naked people cut out of bits of paper" and so I did.

(Almost) every day of January, I added one (more or less) new figure  and I named the piece Naked City 122.

From the same Goodwill on another expedition, I found this really cool t-shirt design and I thought "I bet I could embroider something on that" and so I did.

This French quote by Michel Serres about the difference between exchanging goods and creating human culture resonates with me, and it's also hella wordy so I figured it'd be a good space-filler for that center circle.

I'm disappointed with how I sized the text and I never managed to mount the finished thing in a way that I liked, but c'est la vie [Takes a drag on my cigarette as I lean against a lamp post, the moonlight shining off my beret]

February

I was still on my paper-cut-out-figures kick, so I filled up this Goodwill frame with some more. There's a whole locked post about it on the Oh Joy Sex Toy Patreon.

Then I made some motherfuckin' hand sewn Ohmu plushies.

March

Leetle hand sewn starfish!

Obviously I had to embroider the words Sassified and Ham! on an old t-shirt to go in these other Goodwill frames. 

April

You know, this drawing of Duchess RavenWaves may actually be my favorite thing I drew this year. 

The original illustration is from a box of lingerie I found in an antique mall, but with just a little bit of tweaking I turned it into some ridiculous fanart to post on my Lady LovelyLocks Instagram account. 

Oh! And Speaking of Lovely LadyLocks fanart based on pre-existing art...

Jay Wolf surprised and delighted me with this fucking gorgeous coloring of my adaptation of La Fiancée Hésitante by August Toulmouche.

You can't unsee the LLL maidens now, can you?

May

Once upon a time in a group chat, my friends and I were talking about consentacles, which is probably self-evident to the kinda pervs who found me through Oh Joy Sex Toy, but for the rest of you sweet baby innocents: these are tentacles that ravage you sexually with your consent, so everybody has a good ol multi-hole-pluggin time. Then somebody typo'd it as consenticles, which naturally led to speculation about a Greek mythology figure who invited consensual touch of his testicles, and so on and so on, you know how group chats go.

This (giant) piece still isn't finished, but someday it'll be a portrait of Consentacles and Consenticles with their legions of adoring followers. 

June

How... how do I even explain...

I'm embroidering a scale-model replica of the Lady LovelyLocks doll (with actual original dress) and box, which I will someday assemble together so it's a multi-dimensional piece. 

If this is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

So that was the first six months of the year, stay tuned as I get the second half ready in its own post. 

What did you do or experience in 2022 that makes you feel proud or happy or creative or human?