Chriso (they/them)

Periwinkle blue writing on the burnt umber railing of a bridge that reads “Keep smiling it will get better I promise.”

A view of a structure of three cubes built of wooden blanks with two cubes of concrete blocks balanced on top with the sun shining behind them.

Gorgeous view of the Willamette River with a blue sky and fluffy clouds

A view from N Portland late at night with a rain-wet street.

Love the silver Chucks! 🤩

A plastic Halloweensksleton sitting jauntily with one leg up on a red chair in someone’s front lawn

Closeup of an orange and yellow dahlia

Aloe featuring black frame glasses, a leopard print tshirt with ringer collar, denim jacket covered in pins and some lovely autumn sunshine

A sidewalk sign of a cartoon sloth holding a sign that reads “PLEASE DON’T PEE ON MY FAVORITE CLIMBING TREE.”

Closeup of a Harlequin Gloryblower

A hand drawn sign that reads “NO CELL PHONES” with a drawing of an old school cell phone with a red ban sign through it

A gorgeous dahlia garden in someone’s front yard

A selfie featuring black glasses, sparkly red eyeshadow, cherry earrings and black collared shirt with a hammered gold tone necklace

A red sulphur cosmos flower

A plastic Halloween skeleton of a flamingo standing on one leg in someone’s garden

An inflatable Halloween in iron with a bright pink mane and visible skeleton

Overhead view of my green Converse framing a bright pink journal with the word “Valentine” written on it in marker

A fountain bursting forth with water

A spooky baby doll with blacked out eyes and a maroon gown hanging from a wooden fence in a front yard Halloween scene

A 12 foot skeleton with a flower crown in a front yard. (I have always called this skeleton ‘Skelana Del Rey.’)

Overhead view of my green Converse sneakers as I stand on a patch of grass scattered with red maple leaves

Small plastic pink flamingo on a lawn

A cluster of sunflowers

A duo chromatic plastic spider in purple and aquamarine hanging from a porch

Closeup of a butterfly bush

A skeleton perched on a staircase wearing a tshirt that reads “WAITING ON THE EPSTEIN FILES LIKE”

Plastic gravestones on a lawn that read “BEA BAAACK-LATER” and “COLIN SICK”

Gorgeous red maple tree

A pale cream colored rose with bright pink edges

Closeup of a spruce

A sugar maple tree with bright red and orange leaves

Closeup of a pokeweed branch

Rich, dark fuchsia dahlias with yellow centers

Bright orange and yellow dahlia

Peach and bright orange dahlias

Bright red dahlias

A cluster of red holly berries

A gorgeous fuscia dahlia

Multicolored ceramic tiles on a garden bed

Multicolored ceramic tiles on a garden bed

A cute tabby kitty peeking out of some plants

A hand painted sign that says ‘SLOW DOWN!’ With a cartoonish lizard on top

A striped kitty sitting on a garden wall wearing sn invisible fence collar

A squirrel in a tall tree

A mini haunted house/graveyard display on a tree stump

A garden with plastic skeleton hands that have colorfully painted nails sticking out of the ground

Plastic Halloween gravestones sticking out of a step-style garden

Two skeletons - one dressed as a bride holding another dressed as a groom like it’s their wedding night

A picture of the St. John’s Bridge shot from a park in Portland, OR

Paintings of Betty Boop as Bride of Frankenstein and a witch on the window of Mis Tacones restaurant.

Paintings of Betty Boop as a mermaid and made up for Dia de Los Muertos on the window of Mis Tacones restaurant.

Paintings of Betty Boop as a zombie rising from the grave on the window of Mis Tacones restaurant.

A hand painted sign on brown paper stapled to a telephone pole that reads “I’ll pay Tom Homan $50,000 to stay out of Portland.”

A drawing on white paper stapled to a telephone pole of a multticoored, stylized face with purple, orange, pink and turquoise elements.

A drawing on white papers stapled to a telephone pole of a multticoored, stylized face with light blue, purple, peach and light green elements.

A cream colored concrete wall with two graffiti pieces: one that reads ‘Eradicate Corporations’ and another that reads ‘I love u’

A picture of a pitcher of water next a cucumber like mocktail that made me say “Oh! Heavenly!” out loud to myself 🤣

An outdoor diagrams perched on a rock featuring Scrabble tiles, toys and figurines.

A really big plastic skull for sale at Walgreens

A mural of California wildflowers on a wooden fence

A pampas grass shrub

A podium made of white wood adorned with a Barbie doll and a Barbie doll styling head and labeled “QUEEN AARON” in gold letters sitting in front of a house

A gorgeous rose with a yellow center, peachy orange mid color and magenta edges

A piece of mail from Society Church that seems to be a cult

A plush toy that looks like two different kind of Hello Kitty plushies that are stitched together like the Frankenstein monster

A big swath of sunflowers in a sidewalk garden

Sleater-Kinney performing at Revolution Hall on 9/11/2025

Title card for the 1939 classic film ‘The Women’

A very creepy looking carved wooden owl on a shelf at Goodwill

A towering bunch of sunflowers hemmed in by a low concrete wall

Closeup of a sunflower with a bee getting busy in it

A dry erase board posted in front of someone’s house with a drawing of a monkey holding a banana that reads “BANANA LOVERS DAY”

Portland 8/27/25

A rose bush with beautiful fuchsia roses at the International Rose Test Garden.

A rose bush with beautiful white, coral and yellow roses at the International Rose Test Garden.

All-Girl Summer Fun Band at Revolution Hall

Bratmobile at Revolution Hall

Portland 8/21-8/22
Finding moments of peace and joy amid the grief.

White graffiti on a maroon wall that reads “GUITAR SNARE BASS”

Section of a mural at Oasis in San Francisco

Another section of a mural at Oasis

Yet another section of a mural at Oasis, this one featuring a memorial for Heklina

8/9/25 San Francisco

A sign about staying 6 feet apart still posted at Secret Studios in SF

A door to a practice space at Secret Studios displaying altered versions of Sweetwater stickers

Men’s room door sign altered with drawings of breasts and a vulva

Women’s room door sign altered with drawing of pecs and a penis

8/9/25 san francisco

Shot of my tv screen of a credit from the made for tv movie ‘The Haunting Passion’ starring Jane Seymour as a perpetually horny lady who starts having sex with a ghost. I thought it was hilarious that the art direct his basically named ‘His Cocks.’ You can watch this bonkers telefilm on YouTube and I highly recommend it.

A sign by a local Portland artist of a sloth holding a street sign that says “Slow Down.” I’m trying, sloth, believe me, I’m trying.

Short of a bare birch tree that I found stunning.

Shot of the same bard birch tree from the other side.

Portland 7/30-8/4/25

Happy heavenly birthday, Mom. I miss you so much. 💗💗💗
8/1/1943-7/27/2025

Ceramic glasses, nose and mustache mask like a bad disguise from an old comedy film watched to a telephone pole

A beautiful rose with tones of deep orange, yellow and soft red on the outer edges

A bunch of torch lilies

A sign stapled to the telephone pole that Ted’s ‘YOU CAN’T PRAY THE GAY AWAY protect queer and trans youth’ and ‘Kenton loves queers’

Portland 7/23/25

A tall sunflower standing in someone’s front yard

Selfie in the sunshine featuring pinkish eyeshadow and a pastel floral shirt

A multicolored wooden bench with stylized snakes painted on the slats

Sidewalk chalk graffiti that reds ‘NO WIENERS ONLY WINNERS’

Portland 7/23/25

Sticker on a telephone pole that reads ‘MAGA IS A FASCIST CULT’

Graffiti on an electric box that reads ‘M*rder I.C.E. AGENTS’

A photo of my living room waiting many wall hangings, shelves of records and a sad little chair and tray waiting to be replaced by a couch and coffee table soonish!

A photo of my left arm with a variety of lip glosses and liquid lipsticks swatched on it to prove to myself I don’t own dozens in the same color 😅

Magenta and white hydrangea

Deep red lily

Blue hydrangea

Failing Star flowers

7/11/25 portland

A painting on the window of the incomparable Mis Tacones in NE Portland. The painting is part of a series of astrological signs and their associated foods. This one is for “Piscis” and it’s a horchata! The painting is of an amber colored glass of horchata against a lavender cloud.

A looking up photo of the trees in Peninsular Park reminding me of California redwoods

A selfie of me laying down with a Jean-Michel Basquiat button shirt unbuttoned, grey tank top, aquamarine shadow and a reshot shaved head.

7/2-7/4/25 portland

A new sign about Elon Musk in place of the old one with the quote ‘By the time they figure out what I am really up to it’ll be too late.’

Selfie featuring minty green eyeshadow and my Steve Keen paintings of Sleater-Kinney album covers in the background.

Selfie featuring pistachio green eyeshadow with pink accents that match my pink tee; also a wooden beaded necklace.

Lovely red hollyhocks

6/27-7/1 portland