Art By Raealize

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  • Self Portrait 1

    I wanted to start posting my stuff on Etsy, which never actually happened, but at the time I thought I should do a self-portrait that I could use as my thumbnail, or whatever. This one comes from a photo taken at the Sasquatch Festival campgrounds at the Gorge in George, Washington. Read more

  • Fundraiser for Haiti

    After the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, a coworker held an art auction as a benefit and I donated two pieces. My coworker gave me some images from Haiti that I could use. The first is a woman praying – this piece was important for me obviously because of the cause, but also because I Read more

  • Pregnant Jen

    A darling friend of mine from Portland was pregnant and had this beautiful photo series done with her husband. I’m not sure exactly how I decided to use one of her images to make a portrait, but I think it might have originated in a facebook comment conversation based on some of my other pieces. Read more

  • Queer Health Task Force

    Another student group t-shirt contest (or really they said it was a logo contest but I chose to ignore that distinction). Queer Health Task Force made me think of fighters for good, defending the innocent, and bringing justice to the world, etc. Also Pride. So that lead me to the Power Rangers, that I repurposed Read more

  • SHAG T-shirt Contest

    In grad school I joined a student group called the Sexual and Reproductive Health Action Group, or SHAG for short (you can just ignore the fact that it should really be SRHAG) (Also did I mention that I went to Public Health school and that my concentration was in adolescent reproductive health? Now maybe it Read more

  • Yoga

    Another calendar my old roommate brought home was of yoga poses, so I picked three of them and made a little series. I decided since it was to be a legit series that I would use the same paper choices for all three. And I chose more muted patterns to reflect the calming nature of Read more

  • My First Commission

    My best friend and I were having a Hanukkah party at my apartment in Portland. But if you know anything about Portland, you know that there aren’t many Jews. In fact, if we just invited our friends, there would be one and a half Jews coming aside from ourselves. So we told our friends that Read more

  • Religious Propaganda Girl

    For years I liked collecting what I call religious propaganda, which basically refers to anything faith-based that someone is handing out on the street, and other things like glow-in-the-dark Mary candles and Bibleopoly (actually kind of a fun game). I decided to use the handouts to recreate the Brooklyn Girls Baywatch Babe. Not sure it Read more

  • Brooklyn Girls

    I’ve always been into making collages with magazines, and then at some point started getting into scrapbooking paper. This was back when I was living in Portland. One of my roommates at the time worked at a bookstore, and when they had calendars that didn’t sell, they would rip off the cover to send back Read more