Zachary Trebellas. Guilty By Association/. Manipulated Sailor Moon Screen Shot And Text. 2015.Left Text:

Zachary Trebellas. Guilty by Association/共謀による刑事罰. Manipulated “Sailor Moon” screen shot and text. 2015. Left text: Shut the #¥&! up! Right text: ¥#$&ing idiot! I’d hoped to put some hand written elements into this piece, but my scanner is not cooperating today, so I had to go all digital.

This draft is part of the series I’m working on, Nippo Greco American, exploring my relationship with the three ethnic groups I in some way identify with.  The images come from a 1970's Greek cookbook we had in the house growing up.

Last weekend my housemate and I drove an hour to West Michigan's Silver Lake Dunes. I'd never been to any of Michigan's sand dunes before and had no idea they would look so alien. Our journey to and from the lakefront was challenging. At times we had to climb over steep sand and ice on our hands and knees. Initially, the dunes themselves were tall and vast, like a snowy desert. Pressing on, we encountered barely rooted trees sticking out of the sand, then an intermediary landscape of frozen sand, and then slick, treacherous ridges made of large balls of ice fused together. I'd heard from someone that they were created by waves successively freezing on top of each other. Lake Michigan itself was just as bizarre as the other landscapes. The water had somehow frozen and broken into thousands of huge triangular shards. They looked like broken windows. If we listened quietly in the near silence we could hear the ice cracking.  My camera doesn't do well with low light, so the film didn't come out as clear as I'd hoped, but it's nice to have some kind of evidence of what it looked like before it begins to melt.

The draft of a pattern I’m working on for a collage. The colors were inspired by this video by Gesu no Kiwami Otomé. It will be fun to test out other scales and color combinations, though.

Some stationary and an envelope I made when I was 23 that I took out to write my cousin a letter.

UICA TRAILER

↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ A new commercial made by my coworkers on a budget of $0 to promote our workplace, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, MI. I’ve got just one month left before my temporary position there runs out, but I’m happy to have learned so much these past four months. Working in museum education has been a dream come true.