Addendum: fuck that, /c/Oregon is almost dead. I’m gonna put them here, but not now, later.

Images from the body of work I presented:

Artist Statement:

I’m Tanis Nikana, and this is my project Matsuri Machi, a still life involving building blocks in conjunction with traditional Japanese gaming bits to create a little fantasy village, set atop my dining table! It’s got themes of an idealized fantasy lifestyle, friendship, those bustling utopias folks long for sometimes, and queer love, informed a bit by Hayao Miyazaki, Katamari Damacy, with some of the busy-ness of Andreas Gursky, always something new to see in the margins. What you’re looking at is the fourth time I’ve shot this–I’ve always been a bit unhappy with any given iteration, wishing I could do things better, and the next time I shoot it, things are better! There might be a fifth. This iteration was originally shot as homework for a community college photography class.

So taken at a glance, are a bunch of low camera angles to encourage this idea of being present there in the village, but sometimes I shot a bit higher just to capture some of the detail of the scene. I tried to capture a whole range of times of day, from broad daylight to the evening, and I worked a whole bunch of little spottable bits in, like the shogi pieces having a secret battle among the rooftops, careful placement of hanafuda to reflect some of the environments they’re in, and more.

Thanks for seeing my work!

Pricing and Prints:

These can be printed however you’d like, but I personally enjoy them at 24"x36". Not too big it’s hard to move them, but big enough to get lost in the details without straining. I would price them around $1k/image at that scale.

In my house are two framed 24”x36”es (“Main Marketplace in Spring” and “Friends on the Thirteen Orphans Wall in the Alleyway”), and twenty other 8”x12”s, which I would have printed as big as the first two, had I the cash. Having these pictures being so enlarged helps to reduce the size of the human viewing them gets them into the moment, makes the place feel alive.

However, I’ve never sold work before, and this is just me trying to put together an informed price on this. I could be off. I’m not a professional. Thank you for considering me.

Demolition, to be replaced with separate lots for construction. A music venue is already going up in one of the sites of an old anchor store.

Alright

Fortunately, we’re all allowed to go places and we’re not restricted to our cities, unable to leave! This bodes well for me, cause one of my jobs is near Reed College, and if I can’t get out there, I can’t work.

This side of the Willamette has the best katsudons in the metro area, plus it’s where I bought my house for 2.99%. I’m staying on this side.

How is adware an issue? I haven’t had any of that with my Mint machine.

That’s a well-built guillotine.

Yeah, but now the basketballs are smaller.

I love my state.

(Tanis says this about all states that have people who bring guillotines to data center meetings. She just happens, coincidentally, to live in this particular one.)

That laugh scene is cringe the first time through, and heartbreaking every time after that.

He knows he’s never gonna go home again, she knows she’s gonna die.

I never quite understand why, but I enjoy the parts of 65,000,000 BC less than the rest of Chrono Trigger.

It’s objectively a good game all the way through. I don’t know why I’m like this.

Right next to pedophiles and people who talk in the theater.

What I wanna know, is inside the mind of these people, do they not know that at the top of the phone is a smaller quiet speaker for putting against their ear, cause the microphone is at the bottom of the phone? I can clearly see they know there’s a microphone at the bottom, but then they turn on the big speaker and hold the whole phone away from their face?

But she isn’t using phone speaker. And if she is, I’m gonna stare her down until she feels mildly uncomfortable about it and puts it away, cause this is my hill and I’m dying on it.

I really wish these people would understand that a tiny pair of wireless earbuds makes the audio sound so much better than a phone speaker.

Phone speaker should be silent and never used ever, no good has ever come out of a phone speaker. Use headphones instead all the time. I don’t even know why speakers exist on phones. I see kids and old ladies alike defaulting to speaker phone when they call people, they don’t use headphones (or, god forbid, put the phone up to their ear like we did for a hundred years).

Call me crotchety and grouchy or whatever, this is the hill I’m dying on.

Fuckers need to use some goddamn headphones.

In their off-hours!

Worst case scenario is that he gets a bath. Interesting scenario, he drowns to death cause he can’t survive in water that’s not rancid.

So we dump water on his head, clean water, and the parasite comes out?

I saw it happen with a praying mantis recently.

Thanks for the downvote, random friend. It shows me you care about the day-to-day plight and suffering and wearing-down of transgender people in a way that only you can indicate with a downvote.