About

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Toast Mushrooms
Banana slugs Messy hands
Halloween Summer
Coffee Costco

Background

I'm a queer artist, DM, general internet cryptid - an ancient one from the old days of the web.

My first run-in with html was self-taught through Neopets (of all places) back in the early 2000's. Otherwise I'm a professional artist, Dungeons and Dragons hobbyist, gamer, and...I dunno...I just enjoy doing stuff.

I developed this show idea in 2025 as my dad was beginning to truly decline in health. It got me thinking about my family history in tech, and art, and how intertwined they are, and I wanted to work together to show off this little niche that's (I think) quite overlooked and underappreciated right now as a result of the cultural hyperfocus on generative AI.

Then it occured to me that I love web revival, and I love poking around with this space. Why shouldn't it also be considered art when there's so much love and care put into its creation. So Shadow of Valtus is now the homepage for this project, and will be (is) an interactive installation at the gallery amongst all of our other works.

Working with my dad was...frustrating haha. He was a software engineer with an ~extensive~ knowledge of low level programming, so we communicated on vastly different levels. It was rewarding to give him space to show off the artwork he had committed his later years to though; and I'm so relieved that I was able to show him his work professionally framed before he passed.



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Books Handwashing dishes
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The outdoors Pickle juice in everything
Birds Opera

Background

I'm a wife, mother, web designer, crafter, and computer tech.

I started out as a crafter, studying art for two years in college. I then moved on to computer programming for business languages.

I spent some time on bulletin boards in the early 1990's. One of the boards I went to was developing an online video game. I designed some bitmap images for the game. Most were furniture images, boxes, and vases - though all are now lost to time, unfortunately.

In the late 1990's, I started working on friends' and family's computers and later turned that into a business teaching older adults how to use computers and doing repairs. I stopped working on computers and moved into web design.

I like combining my interests in visual design with web design technology. It has been a lot of fun looking back at web design and recreating some of the more interesting, visually rich designs from the past.