ART:
Most of my art is obsessed with locating aesthetic languages of my own grief. What I need to say, how I feel, and the means to externalize it evolves. Sometimes I want to let go, but many times I indulge in memorializing and sacralizing what I shouldn’t. Grief to me is proof of love, joy, and happiness within me. It is an omen of hope rather than a Sisyphean punishment for loving. The means of materializing my morose expressions can be photography, collage, miscellaneous organs from the butcher shop, tea bags, plastic wrap, petals, porcelain, paint, and more. Sometimes it only exists within a digital world, sometimes it’s AFK, sometimes it’s both. Sometimes it moves, sometimes it’s still. Sometimes, I just wanna draw a cute little guy or design a fictitious beer brand—that’s on here too.
GENERAL:
Currently studying twentieth century global and postcolonial poetics at UVA (fixated on Kamau Brathwaite, at the moment). My research is mostly preoccupied with questions of poetic representations of reality (but not quite how Jonathan Culler sees it). I also like reading Walter Benjamin, Édouard Glissant, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Roland Barthes, Bertolt Brecht, György Lukàcs, Rita Felski, Paul Saint-Amour, Wai Chee Dimock, and so many more.
I have four faerie-godchildren. They are the stars that illuminate my blanket of darkness and constellate all my joy in the world. We brew potions together and eat sunchips while watching AI-generated YouTube videos on their iPads.
for collabs, inquiries, +/or friendship:
cappsjuliano.art@gmail.com