Booba style pics from the anxiety pit to be featured at Cybe..

Booba style pics from the anxiety pit to be featured at Cyber Castle 🦭💕🌱🏰 this installation will be there as a ball pit full of seal plushes to address the social anxieties of postcovid life; for those who are exhibiting signs of reacclimation nerves but still wanna party 🎉

I see a lot of postcovid (I hate that term) art that addresses the collective trauma we’re going through by *being social again* — my take on this is not everyone is ready to be social; I certainly am on edge about it. I had a panic attack a while ago and holding the Booba seal plushes helped. Maybe it can help someone else too. We all have different timelines of social comfort, and different thresholds of how much contact we have or even want. Personally, I like being alone at home and online. It’s going way out of my comfort zone to do an art event, but I feel aligned with it and I need to do this. Most of all I wanna have fun. So much of conceptual art takes itself to seriously; no need to be pretentious. One can be intellectual and still have an inviting, empathetic aura. Compassion is something our society lacks hard.

I’ve been wanting for a long time to design something ridiculous but meaningful to be interactive in my art shows. In my past performances I often had a bed on stage to lay down in if I have anxiety. I don’t think people understand how hard I struggle with it even tho I seem outgoing. I always want a space at the party to taken a breather and micro-decompress. Crash landed into the Booba pool 🦭

The giant foil mass on my bedroom wall rn is going to take over most of my apartment, and then be moved to the gallery space, to be exhibited as an installation as well ad a backdrop for the performances 🌟

I’m gonna be doing a music performance too, my first set of original tracks and first performance in over 2 years and I’ll be posting some of the production stuff here like I did with *Hentai & Crack 1* in 2020 early quarantine 🥺💞

It’s a lot of work but there’s nothing else I’d rather be doing rn. The big foil thing // the cybertumor, I’m sleeping in it. The pictures don’t do it justice yet, it looks insane. It’s a giant mass of chaos when looked at from afar, and when you get close up, you see distorted mirrors and fucked up lights and disorienting porn collages/Bernie Sanders/automatic writing/anime girls/physical manifestations of obscure corners of the internet. Basically a Nastya reality come to life lol

There are several installations I’m designing with the help of some of my friends, and THANK YOU GUYS for helping with the funding it’s seriously invaluable to me💕💕💕💕💕💕💕 I will post so many pics of the event and the prep leading up to it, and for the tippers on my art-related posts and campaigns I’ll have extra content for you of both the sfw and nsfw variety 💖

Meanwhile I am enjoying the Booba at home 🦭💕