Thesis 5: Drag in Weird Places (Walter)

Thesis: Drag in Weird Places / Tiny Mythologies 



various cameras, friends, a couple rounds of raiding my sister’s closet, fear 

Clothes mis-matched, makeup deliberately smudged, hair gelled to my scalp weird, Walter is both a character and a chance for me, Eva, to be weird without consequences.  Walter is a vessel I get to pour the ridiculousness in me into, without a sieve to catch all the extra fallen pieces. These series of photos and videos span across months of both very strategic and planned shoots on weekends to random school nights where I threw on red lipstick after getting home at 11PM from Honors Theatre performances and sat in my bathtub willing my mighty iPhone to have more storage. 

Series shot on Polaroid Oneshot with SX70 film, digital, disposable, and film camera, and iPhone 

...or weird drag in normal places? Walter in Weird Places? 

This project is intended to show my alter-ego, Walter, existing in worlds miserably, but stoic as he navigates the world as a person who doesn't really know how he fits into it. Walter at the grocery store. Walter in the kitchen. Walter at home. Walter at the park. Walter at the laundromat. This is Walter's world. 










Thesis Show Installation: 












The text on the TV screen is an altered excerpt from my diary. It reads:
March 19, 2025

I just need to make art really fast, and I need to organize myself. Art is influence. "Art Saves." Art is uninspiring. I have all these feelings that never leave me. They float down the river and never come back. I wish I could do anything I wanted. In 11 days, I will be able to buy spray paint legally. I just have to make art bigger than what I'm trying and failing to do because I can't channel anything right now (take that highschool english). Does this count as art yet?" 



Drafts/Works in Progress 

TV Transformation/Installation 




 
Before spray paint....




Mucky inbetween, this doesn't look like Walter yet. 



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