Mirror Economy | Featured Artists

Texas Isaiah

Texas Isaiah is a visual narrator based in Los Angeles, Oakland, and NYC. His work focuses on the possibilities that can emerge by inviting individuals to participate in the photographic process, collectively shifting the power dynamics within photography. This approach centers the intimacy created and nourished between a person and a place. He and the sitter cooperatively think about what it means for a person to be at home in their feelings and body. There are plenty of distractions and traumatic experiences that prevent us from engaging with our bodies, emotions, and thoughts. Texas Isaiah believes individuals must have photographic spaces that lead us back to our spirits.

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Evan James Benally Atwood

Evan James Benally Atwood is a queer Diné photographer and artist born to the clans Ta'neeszahnii (Tangle clan) and Naakai dine'é (The Mexican Clan), residing in Portland, OR. Their work comes from the intersection of a queer identity and honoring ancestral indigeneity. Evan is passionate working within the queer, indigenous feminist communities, documenting stories and uplifting marginalized voices.

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Kenn Amethyst

Kenn Amethyst (also know as Amethyst)  is a black, non-binary (they/them) multipractical artist, currently residing in Portland, Oregon. Using mainly digital photography and poetry as their mediums of choice, they explore topics that are prominent within their personal outlook of the world, including: blackness, queerness, spirituality, and trauma and healing. 

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Ariella Tai

ariella tai is a video artist, film scholar, and independent programmer from Queens, New York.  They are interested in Black performance and cultural vernaculars in film, television and media studies.  They are one half of “the first and the last,” a fellowship, workshop and screening series supporting and celebrating the work of Black women and femmes in film, video and new media art.  They have shown work at Anthology Film Archives, the Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival, Portland Institute For Contemporary Art, Northwest Film Center, Boathouse Microcinema, Wa Na Wari, the Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival, MOCA and Smack Mellon. Their most recent video work "safehouse" was commissioned by Trinity Square Video in Toronto for group show "Architectures after the Asylum" curated by Sajdeep Soomal.

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Haevyn

Haevyn (she/they) is a Geechee non-binary, trans femme writer, artist, actor, & DJ from the Lower Coastal Region of Georgia - now residing in Portland, Oregon. As a DJ, she is known as Concrete Dahlia, a name that she describes as, "a lil bit of punk rock mixed with a lil bit of divine elegance and poise." She is one of the co-founders of the upstart UwU Collective, a Portland-based, queer collective of trans and gender non-conforming and QTPoC creatives, committed to making spaces for marginalized communities to rave in safety, prioritizing QTPoC, and to uplift their communities through art, action, and advocacy. You can always find "The Dahlia", as she refers to herself sometimes, snuggling with her son, Garbo the cat, or eating with her friends. You can find Haevyn on Instagram at @concretedahlia. 

SHATTER MIX 01: PREMIERES APRIL 18TH @ 12NOON