Pictures 2008 – 2014

2008 / 2009

Getting my drivers license back after it had expired.

The horizon line is the same angle, the planet the same spot as the circle on the wall.

He’d not been happy to hear I’d ridden on a motorcycle with an exboyfriend. This is that ex:

Scanning in old family stuff at my Aunt’s.

Family reunion hi-jinx at Fox Fest.

Drunken bar people from my 20’s. Stefan fixated on these photos and this time of my life a bit. My dating and social past rankled him.

The lunch boxes inspire the robot.

Combining the women, the line of the wood paneling inspires the rope.

Based on a drawing of mine.

A mashup of composition, me hugging my cousin becomes me hugging the dog, the demon dog inspired by my witchy cousin beside us.

On his site, then colored for tumblr.

Originally on his website, then redrawn for tumblr.

Opening a Ouija board on Christmas and the terror of braces inspires the demon theme. I’m such a dork.

In reference to a drawing I’d given him of my dinky espresso machine, he drew a massive espresso machine on cardboard, originally drawn in 2008/2009

2009

I’d forgotten that he had asked me to model for this one.

One of our last trips during the rough year, a haunted hayride.

Oct 26th

My image taken in July, his taken in October right before his Halloween party.

Sticky Friends vs Stefan

Oct 27th 2009

I co-hosted his 2008 Halloween party, but the following year he only had me by to decorate when nobody else was around. I did not attend. My 2008 photos on the left, his 2009 on the right.

The measuring cups in the foreground of his photo to recreate the green of light of mine.

This photo was taken just a month prior to the Halloween party.

The double eyebrows make the clown makeup shape, my grin similar to the clown. He then did a drawing of his own photo of that character, which is redrawn/reposted often.

(He posted some of these on flickr and some of them on facebook, so the fact that he’d obviously copied my images wasn’t evident.)

Our faces combined, with scarfed away chins.

Nov 20th

Me as a child and a mural I drew while working at Starbucks in the 90’s

Nov 21st

My old cat Mister Mangles, and his new stray.

His caption: “She’s…..gotta go. Though, I don’t want her to. She escaped my roommates room and opened my door. She pounced on my bed in complete darkness and just adjusted herself to my shape and stretched up against me. That’s hard to let go.”

Nov 25th

A photo he asked me to take for painting reference, vs his own recreation.

His photograph, expressing how he felt during our split.

Nov 26th

His caption: Happy Thanksgiving

Be thankful for your friends. Even if you find them grotesque, don’t forget who carried your weight when you needed a lift. A picture of a father giving his son a piggy back ride inspired this.   I don’t really like the perspective…..or the drawing. I’ll be redrawing this.

I really love this one. He just took elements from different old photos I was scanning in at the time.

His own photograph, turning his friend holding him into me being held by him; the origins of what would later turn into the theme of his bloodied figure carrying my bloodied body in his arms.

(He actually explained this one to me at the time, because I’d asked if the female-Stefan was the other woman he was dating.)

on my way to a funeral.

For each of these drawings, representing the torture he was in as we were splitting up, he used reference from the photographs I took of us on our very first time hanging out. Even the colors and the ghostly cigarette, the fellow in the right looking like he was made out of apple.

This image doesn’t exist online except a thumbnail.

Her face, his hands, his hair for the fur,

His two attempts at Sticky Friends type stuff without me. He’d made me take down our photo with him shirtless, as he was already with the new girl. And of course, he was sure to get that pinky tat in the photo with her to rub it in.

2010

Jan 1st

A combination of photographs.

(he wouldn’t normally cut himself so defined a line from temple to chin if weren’t there so prominently in the source photograph, and his large eyes look small and sad because they are from a different angle.)

Jan 18th

Jan 28th

Feb 9th

One of the photos we’d taken for his website.

March 2nd

March 8th

March 14th

I took this of him our first night out in Ocean Grove. He said it looked like his spirit was leaving his body. He’s recreated it in a hallway.

March 24th

Uploaded ten days apart.

June 15th

one month apart. framed so the female symbol is visible behind him.

August 9th

One of the few times I could visit his house, there was a kitten visiting. We both took photos.

2011

April 23rd

May 4th

May 6th

Realizing that Stefan thought these were both the same guy. I was wondering why he gave him earings, and the crossbones. I’d attended a convention with the fellow on the left, and he and I both met and had a photo taken with two actresses from Killer Klowns from Outerspace. It drove Stefan crazy, no doubt, and likely feeds into his frequent reposting of his Killer Klown drawing.

I was aware this was us.

But not this one.

Reposting my old Halloween photos of myself dressed up like Spike the vampire, immediately after, Stefan posts a selfie with a caption: “…I haven’t taken a picture of myself since I decided to after a five year old cried “Mommy Vampire!”, in public upon seeing me. I mean, I’m not exactly an extreme looking character these days, but I give off that “vibe”. Ugh…kill me. So, I left the house while still light out and I got the vampire thing twice in a few hours…”

And then he posts this image:

inspired by my photographs of a themed figure drawing session. It’s obviously not his nose, and used the curls of her hair and the “tattoos” on Jiz Lee’s chest in his hair.

Combining people helps cover his tracks.

June 15th

This one I noticed and he confirmed he used my grandfather as reference.

This one is beautifully weird.

Fox Fest!

This one is really quite brilliant. Using the pattern and color of the shirt for the fish, his hand for the tail, and posting him twice because it’s Tony Clifton.

Of course, he captioned it with: “I’m only drawing for clients tonight. So… here’s one of those drawings. It’s just concept art… not a polished product. Settle down.” He always had explanations for his drawings. It never occurred to me he was making it up.

Oct 6th

I caught Tony Clifton and Gary Busey catching up at Chiller.

Dec 25th

Bottle of wine? Fancy intellectual book.

2012

Feb 1st

screenshots from a video I’d posted online, and a drawing of mine.

March 29th

March 22nd

March 2nd

Posted a day apart. He incorporates elephants frequently, I’m not sure if that’s because I like elephants, or they never forget?

He’d posted the above in 2010(?). He posted this updated version in 2012 with an underbite shortly after I posted that selfie.

He captioned the drawing with:

“You may recognize this hot mama from an early (and more competently drawn) post.”

That “competently drawn” post uses a reference photo (my crying face) that is right next to this image from a trip to a graveyard Stefan and I took together:

What obscure madness. What the fucking fuck, you brilliant asshole.

May 6th

Nov 14th

removing me.

The wings are from the tree in the background of the adjacent image.

Nov 16th

When I think I’ve found an image that is not related to me, spelunking through social media history of posts from that same day/week can bring laugh out loud rewards.

hint hint, I’m watching you.

Dec ?

My new boyfriend had some success doing book covers for RandomHouse. So Stefan does a book cover. Which looks a lot like my recent logo ideas.

The color and patterns…

This one seems a stretch, but: his sleeves and the music stand mistletoe branches clinch it.

He posted his selfie shortly after my own.

His caption: “Don’t you post any serious pictures of yourself?” Someone asked. Umm…no. I’m not even sure what that means. Like, lifting my shirt up and flexing in a mirror? This is as serious as I get. Meaning….ridiculous. Take it or leave it facebook.”

What a dick.

2013

Jan 5th

I attended an erotic art event in Florida as a photographer.

Jan 8th

He often gives hints with color.

The red corresponding to the pink lighting on the guitarist, the skulls and green from the performance piece money, my then boyfriend as a skull in the foreground.

Aug 30th

He posts the day after me, about walking with crutches.

I post a dead leaf, he posts “autumn awaits”

Or sometimes the hints are thematic, like feathers = bird.

(not my photo, taken by Jeff Moore)

Two weeks after I posted this photograph of me at WFMU, Stefan made a goddamn radio from scratch.

Well shit. Yup, I guess I’m Marilyn. Green background and everything. With black hair, no less. And roses.

I truly didn’t think that this could be me related, but I checked my facebook for the week it was first posted and…

Sept 22nd

posted the same goddamn day.

Nov 2nd

Dec 22nd

2014

I posted two photos from attending a school dance with a girl, he posts his folks, and a photo of his first time in drag, matching the basic color scheme of each.