friend gallery; aka snippets from loved ones

TITLE OF PIECE: To Sort
MEDIUM: Screen Recording
ARTIST NAME: Halo
RELATIONSHIP TO CURATOR: Personality Test Twin
LENGTH OF LOAN: Indefinite/Infinite

CURATOR TAGS: "popcorn tofu"; "jade rings"; "vampiric boy bands"

TITLE OF PIECE: On Suspense: A Dinner Conversation for 2 to 7 Eaters
NAME OF ARTIST: Somebody That I Used To Know
RELATIONSHIP TO CURATOR: Somebody That I Do Still Know
LENGTH OF LOAN: Indeterminate

CURATOR TAGS: "stolen hotel pillows"; "fountain pens"; "snail mail"

TITLE OF PIECE: Willing Sacrifice (left); Unwilling Sacrifice (right) (sketch/unfinished)

MEDIUM: Paper Mate 0.7mm lead on Mixed Media Canson Paper

NAME OF ARTIST: Turnip

ARTIST BIO: Local artist who is haunted/blessed by neighborhood cats. They are currently preoccupied with altering Magic: The Gathering cards.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURATOR: Loan Shark/Bookie/Life Coach

LENGTH OF LOAN: 666 days (until September 01, 2026)

CURATOR TAGS: "guitar riffs"; "themed decks"; "i warned you about stairs bro"

TITLE OF PIECE: Samurai Out of Water
MEDIUM: Online Fanfiction
NAME OF ARTIST: Shimura Otani
ARTIST BIO: Interdimensional Scythe Connoisseur / Tireless Advocate for the Rule of Cool
RELATIONSHIP TO CURATOR: Self Appointed Bad Rad Influence
LENGTH OF LOAN: Until Capcom cares about Sengoku Basara again.

CURATOR TAGS: "fly high"; "mouthfeel"; "fighting the medical industrial complex"

TITLE OF PIECE: &?//?.,
MEDIUM: pixels
NAME OF ARTIST: hyohyohyohyohyohyo
RELATIONSHIP TO CURATOR: little admirer
LENGTH OF LOAN: until we both perish




TITLE OF PIECE: sketches for my gf's mother's flower beds
MEDIUM: digital
NAME OF ARTIST: g's bubbi
RELATIONSHIP TO CURATOR: #1 fan
LENGTH OF LOAN: how many seeds are in a cucumber




TITLE OF PIECE: buddhist temple (ascii sketches)
MEDIUM: text
ARTIST NAME: internet monk
RELATIONSHIP TO CURATOR: pet cat
LENGTH OF LOAN: meow

CURATOR TAGS: "scissorsroid"; "momo"; "one day i will find my way back"

TITLE OF PIECE: Youngman (YMSIHB)
MEDIUM: Audio
NAME OF ARTIST: cd.r0ms (old woman)
RELATIONSHIP TO CURATOR: Participant Observation
LENGTH OF LOAN: Until September 4, 2640 (End Date of Ongoing Halberstadt Performance of John Cage's ORGAN2)

CURATOR TAGS: "baroque magnificence"; "tragic jurassic"; "neither dubstep nor rap"

TITLE OF PIECE: 2022 Poetry Triptych
MEDIUM: Poetry
NAME OF ARTIST: Nico
RELATIONSHIP TO CURATOR: quantum entangled
LENGTH OF LOAN: Forever

CURATOR TAGS: "my mineral"; "straightbaiting"; "break new ground"

(click each photo for links to respective galleries)

TITLE OF PIECE: Can you tell I love animation?
MEDIUM: Cosplay
NAME OF ARTIST: Diana DC
RELATIONSHIP TO CURATOR: Kindred Spirit
LENGTH OF LOAN: As long as the sun and moon shall endure!

CURATOR TAGS: "gleeful ingratitude"; "friend to mantiskind"; "you're a sunflower"

TITLES OF PIECES: On Being Trans and To Be Queer in America
MEDIUM: poems
NAME OF ARTIST: Matzoh Ball
RELATIONSHIP TO CURATOR: friends
LENGTH OF LOAN: as long as you want it

CURATOR TAGS: "what vegetable would i be?"; "parent of the year"; "taking the scenic route"