bahi'chi ♿🌈🌱📝

a look at my last few days... finally done with prints, onto stickers!!! then t-shirts (and maybe tote bags??) 🫡

ohsu was a bust IN THE SENSE THAT they deny me having dysautonomia at all, not *just* POTS & made a point to irrelevantly note my schizoaffective diagnosis (& no other mental health conditions)... fortunately my PCP is amazing & disagrees w/ them completely bc she's SEEN the symptoms in action

here was the setup... it took ~18 minutes per batch of 8 between the prep, drawing, and cutting & i think i printed ~40 cards total? some were lost to misprints or machine error (my cricut sometimes likes to chew on paper, she's a fickle beast)

front and back of my cute little business card :) kind of obsessed with it tbh... it took a surprising amount of trial and error with my cricut for something so small

i'm going to be tabling at the summer bazaar put on by iridescent daydream pdx @ calvary lutheran church in hillsboro on august 9th!!

i'll have t-shirts (ooh ✨), stickers, and prints 🙂‍↕️💖 maybe tote bags if i am bold and brave...

if you're local or close by you should come check it out!!

🥺🫶🏼

a photo of bahi'chi as a small child, maybe 4 or 5 years old. they sit in front of a cookie ice cream sandwich with a lit birthday candle. their arms are spread wide across the table and they are smiling at the camera. the 90s version of the chuck e cheese mascot stands behind them with his head out of view at the top of the photo.

◾ bahi'chi (buh-heat-sea) 🌿
◾ mexican-american 🇲🇽
◾ queer & trans 🌈🏳️‍⚧️
◾ dynamically disabled ♿
◾ creative nonfiction writer, zine maker, film and alternative process photographer, collagist, & printmaker 📸📝🗯️

another abstract print, these ones are from *last* summer (i come back to these like clockwork)

i can't remember if these were of the same rose bush, but they're definitely of plants and there was a TON of movement which i love

these ones look very spacey, night skyish to me 🌌

a blue and white cyanotype print of the leaves of a rose bush. the print captures the shadow of the leaves, which are white and give the illusion of movement.

taken on two separate hot, sunny july days in my backyard ☀️🌿

i always find my way back to abstract cyanotypes bc i find shadows a really interesting medium to work with. these are both prints of the same subject: a rose bush in my backyard. both taken at the same time of day (on different days)

Colorful portrait of a tabby cat laying under a blanket. There is text underneath her reading «everyone loves me!».

It is no longer Thursday here... but here's a portrait of one of my cats, Mel. This was done in 2023!

WE DID IT & THEY'RE SO BEAUTIFUL

the color scheme is kind of giving 90s taco bell? i'm planning on purple and pink too... maybe more of a true blue? hmm

printing my own stickers & there is SO much trial and error. pleased w the colors BUT there is some bleeding of the ink which you can rly see in the yellow stickers. my printer is finicky but tomorrow i will fuss w the settings & see what we can do. at least i fixed the tearing issue (mostly)? 😵‍💫

my printer is nearing 5 years old and oh baby can you tell. like just work with me PLEASE i want to print these dang stickers!!

a kewpie-esque drawing of me (a femme with a black bob, black dress, and cowboy boots) praying. On a cloud above me is my butch husband (with a little mullet, sleeveless tee, and Birkenstocks) as an angel, lounging on a cloud. Butchfemme!!

My Guardian Angel Wears Birkenstocks
#art

i received a hEDS diagnosis today with the very real possibility of my insurance approving a wheelchair for me + i have autonomic reflex testing at ohsu in a couple weeks to confirm POTS... doctors have been shrugging at my symptoms for YEARS this is so relieving and vindicating!!

a small watercolor of the tarot card "the moon". A mysteriously crablike heart shaped pink moon shedding tears in a purple sky illuminates two fluffy dogs beside a pool with an emerging crab. in front of them lays a path between two gigantic thorny white roses.

Cancer season is in full swing. What are you yearning for?

i get sort of stuck in a loop sometimes thinking about how a place can change so much that it's not the same place anymore. especially here, with all the population growth & gentrification. the middle school i attended exists only in my memory, they tore it down & built a new one by the same name.

originally shot in february 2022 on an instax mini film camera

an anxious attempt to capture places from my childhood how i remember them before they changed too much

maybe it's enough just to post... haha... unless...

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no matter the outcome of this election: organize, build local community, build strength in masses. elections aren't the only time politics happen, it also happens on the streets, in the community and by mutually supporting each other.

i want to be an artist not a content creator but alas i am alive in 2024

received literally the kindest, gentlest rejection from a lit mag 🥹

The Feigon Sea (2023)

hiiiii (louder than everyone else)

Cascade

#pixelart #art #space #blue

Black ink illustration on off-white background of a shorthaired tabby cat staring very. intensely down at its food bowl as if disapproving of its contents or angry that it's empty. It is wearing a c collar with two little bells. The shapes used are stylized, elongated and rounded in an art deco style.

By Loïs Mailou Jones. 1935. artvee.com/dl/the-pictu...

Hannibal says "In Dragonball Z, Vegeta, a former antagonist becomes a doting father. Tell me will, do you think you can be redeemed like Vegeta?" Will Graham winces and says "Vegeta was a murderer." nonchalantly, Hannibal retorts "He was also a prince..."