Elan Stinks

Far West Blvd.

Far West Blvd. (2024) is a music video for the song of the same name by AJ Baldwin. It combines computer-generated environments, live-action video, shadow puppetry and found media for a collage effect that expresses feelings of nostalgic longing for an idealized fabrication of the world. The aesthetic references the…

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Mine

Mine (2024) is a short machinima video featuring Minecraft gameplay. The piece explores an important moment in a formative childhood friendship- though the relationship was uniquely intense and intimate, this computer generated cube-wedding was the only overt acknowledgement ever made of our queer dynamic. I was interested in what about…

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Warping and Unraveling

Warping and Unraveling (2024), a video art piece inspired in part by Stan Brachage’s Text of Light, abstracts images of woven fabric to accentuate its structure, texture, and rhythm. The distortion and overlay reference the common symbolism of textiles- creating and transforming social structures. Warping and Unraveling was included in…

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Shirt-A-Day #31

Repurposed yellow t-shirt with collaged decal letters reading “there’s good… there’s better… and then there’s actually finishing an art project”. Part of a collection made for the Fun-A-Day 2024 group show at 1415 gallery in Albuquerque, NM.

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Shirt-A-Day #29

Repurposed green t-shirt with a decal of Kermit the frog playing a banjo under a decal that reads “she’s a little crazy and she scares me sometimes”. Part of a collection made for the Fun-A-Day 2024 group show at 1415 gallery in Albuquerque, NM.

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