Final Weekend for Arcade of Iniquity + Lee Strawberry & Our Next Exhibition
Join us this weekend for token-operated thrills & chills; We continue talking with Lee Strawberry, and info about our next exhibition, "From Teleos to the Beyond."
Featured Artist: Lee Strawberry!
A Chat with Lee Strawberry
DWIGHTMESS: One of the things I enjoy about your comics is how spare they are, and also your love of pink, which I have witnessed in its complete fantastic-ness when you've tabled at both AwesomeCon and at the STORYBOX Comics Fair. You also make music, and the songs are very chaotic collages of many other songs, they're sort of extremely happy. At the same time, you're a black woman discussing mental health in your art and that's a particular relationship to western pop culture that can get very complicated at times, but at other times that can be reasonably simple and easy for anyone to understand. Can you tell us how pop culture (especially music) plays a role in the comics-based aspects of your lifestyle?
STRAWBERRY: Pink has become my coping mechanism, I put in my mind that the more pink I have in my life the happier I’ll be and honestly, it’s been working pretty well! I love music, and I find it silly to change the meaning of songs by mixing them up and editing them to sound like a completely different song. I don’t really have a reason why I do it other than it makes me happy. I didn’t watch a lot of movies or shows when I was younger, but I was online way too often, and it definitely influenced the type of mashups I make. I’m inspired by youtube poops, a genre of youtube videos that sliced, reversed, and mixed videos together to create different meanings. I remember watching many sparta remixes and listening to Lemon Demon in middle school. Being online really shaped my sense of humor, for better or for worse.
As a black person, it feels uncommon to see people like me in the online comic making space. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place though, the internet is a huge place. I don’t disclose any identifiers on TikTok (race, gender, etc), and I’m hesitant to do so, I like the feeling of anonymity I have when I'm on TikTok. I’ve met a TikTok follower in person at a con before, and they said they were pleasantly surprised that I was a black creator.
Pop Up October Venue: The Arcade of Iniquity
Next Dates Open:
Saturday, October 28th, 6-11pm & Halloween, Tuesday, October 31st, 6-midnight
$10 Admission,, very young children should be accompanied by an adult.
Cash accepted at the door or pre-purchase -->
ARCADE of INIQUITY
a production by Moloch's Midway and Cabinet of Infernal Mysteries
Visit Us Halloween Weekend !!!!!!!!!
DWIGHTMESS
805 Silver Spring Ave.
[*Visitors must enter via Ripley St]
Silver Spring MD 20910
NEXT EXHIBITION: From Teleos to the Beyond
DWIGHTMESS presents "From Teleos to the Beyond," a conceptual group show exploring material spirituality and existential narratives created through comics, featuring the original #comics art of Sam Sharpe, Everett Bass, Bob Lubbers and Peach S. Goodrich.
Combining the uncanny and the profane, the arcane and the contemporary, indie, lost and forgotten artists, "From Teleos to the Beyond" represents a cartoonists' inclination for testing out possible habitable cosmic systems through the particularized and unshared realities of their art.
"From Teleos to the Beyond"
Sam Sharpe | Everette Bass | Bob Lubbers | Peach S Goodrich
November 10 - December 31, 2023
DWIGHTMESS
805 Silver Spring Ave
Silver Spring, MD 20910
[entrance on Ripley Street]
Opening Reception:
Friday, Nov. 10, 7-9pm
Light refreshments & drinks served Sam Sharpe to be present virtually, Peach S Goodrich will attend.
Gallery Hours: By Event & Appointment.
from the DWIGHTMESS Studio: “bats”
