I am an ARTIST, Yes however, lets be honest..I may be something of a GENIUS. #YEWEST. #GEMINI
I prefer the term “Creative” because I cycle through 4 Mediums on a constant rotation: Illustration, Photographic, Writing, Video/Sound Collaging.
The visuals in Thank You To The Academy are self shot on time lapse and then degraded into a Warhol-Rothkoish Colorblock. The woman in water. Well.
I waited TWO full days to receive a nod from GOD pertaining to the Usage Rights of “floating girl in water”
Underwater Photography is extremely difficult and no small credit to the models who frequent this genre. The model unknown to me, however the Photographer Engin Akyurt is a Genius.
My sounds come from permissions by other Artist in my Collective, as well as though not within. I also create my own sounds by STEALING THE WORLD, and the “noise” it offers.
I make NEW “Noise” new SOUNDS. There is no sound in existence I will NOT USE. Give me 2 second of your song. A minute of your full complaint….
“Onomatopoeia Me Somethin Pretty”
-V.Machete-
Tuirse is a piece that combines three elements of existence I love
Florals…especially when they have departed life.
Water. There is not a waterfall, lake, or even rain puddle I will NOT play in. A huge bathtub I will ever refuse to languish within.
The laughter of a child. Children. The ASMR of a life not yet tarnished. Their joy in SOUND.
I am a witch; a female Wizard, an Enchantress. I have implanted a trigger sound with the BEST OF intentions.
“DO NOT FEAR WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW, LET IT REVEAL ITSELF TO YOU. THEN…YOULL KNOW.”
-V.Machete-
As a woman involved in what most would consider a “deviant” subset of people; it is a Conundrum to be an Alpha Female; the STRONGEST Wolf-Kitten; affirmed in her personal Constitution and beliefs; always standing FIRM.
The duality between my Alpha Female and my submissive “kitten” and “babygirl” work to soothe my nervous system by yanking me out of my self reliant Dominance.
In these periods. I am able to truly be FREE…BUT fuck No Daddy…” I dont wanna “BE GOOD” All the time.
-V. Machete-
This piece is a nuance answer to “Culture Vultures” as they walk among us fucking our men, injecting their asses and lips, loving big black dick..
all the while…”their “men Swagger Jack our Black American men, through style, dance, and overall bravato.
I need for Black men to OBSERVE what is happening and bring OUR THINGS back to our CULTURE...up to and including…YOUR DICKS.
WE NEED OUR BEAUTIFUL BLAC'K/AFRICAN AMERICAN GENERATIONS TO CONTINUE. UNDILUTED.
This piece was inspired by a local jazz bar and my intense love for the smell of the pump at a Gas Station.
A lot of the point of what I do when I create Video Installs is a simple POINT TO PURPOSE: Jolt the viewer/observer out of what they think they know; to yank one of out a the “Cycle of predictablilty”
The things we SEE create perception, “In The Orb” is an immersive sound experience between what you HEAR…But what you see is parallel.
When I am with HIM, It is just he and I. EVERYTHING falls away. We ARE in an Orb.. we silently create within ourselves. A conversation between our Souls and the animals within.
I, Visual Machete openly and proudly say “I am a sensual Wolf Kitty. On this day, I was inspired by my own Sensuality and my need to be SEEN AND FELT.
and I DO love DIRTY THINGS in my ear.
Meow.
There exist several hundred thousand groups of Artist and Creatives throughout the world who shine the Bat Signal when we have Open Source material, will agree to CC Usage or when we are available should any of our fellow Artist/Creatives need bodies to create.
“Convocu” is me, shining the bat signal.
I had an idea and very little time and locations to see this idea through; so, it is because of this network of Creatives I am able to gather people, pull resources and create the things I see in my head.
It takes my ideas many things, most pertinent are three elements: People, Guerilla Shots, and speed.
For Hollow 3, I created this on a very dismal winter day and night, in a city unknown to me.
I found myself walking through a tunnel from a architectural reaping and KNEW.. I HAD to come back here and shoot something. The next day I did.
I borrowed a tall young woman in a nearby neighborhood. I told her what I needed and she was more than happy to wander the street, in a confused state FOR MY ART.
“Hi, can I please take you to this studio real quick and wrap your head in plastic.?
Open Source Creators, Open Source Minds= An Open YES.
Random moments with people I know and do not know are titular to how I create.
Sound is created by a low hum of the deepest voice in my life; during a throat chakra meditation I collaged with another Field Recording open source.
Be haunted. Be intrigued.
-V. Machete-
The power is NOT in the word, the power lays within the people who give it the ONUS; the power to offend.
Be one of the brave women who says “fuck you, this power you cannot have.”
-V.Machete-
This piece is inspired by SOUND. The visual aspects are myself/V.Machete in various flex poses while wearing latex; which is an arbitrary second beauty… to the SOUND.
The soundscape is a stacked loop of literally the last 30 seconds of a song that truly never receives the love it deserves.
Most people are completely unaware this 30-35 seconds even exist on the particular track I reaped it from.
Sounds. My OWNER. Myself belonging to him and my NEEDS being met as tangible and REAL as the need for water, sleep, and air.
There is not much for you to see. Just HEAR, READ if you choose, and FEEL.
