To say Elaine Bay is an eccentric artist would be an understatement of the highest order. Maybe I haven't been exposed to too many artists from a non-college setting, but she was quite the character either way.
Bay assumed the pseudonym Princess Die after she left grad school and joined the group "the Miracale Five" and began to create art with them. She would take topical pieces from the media, and add demonic horns, serpentine tongues and bloody vomit to a cast of characters from Brittany Spears (which she was immensely proud of) to George Washington. She would collage the images as well as draw on them. She also had a pension for making animated gifs of said demonized icons.
After her work with Miracle Five, she moved onto the group Sweat 2 Die (STD), where she, Sweatron, and two dancers both known as "dancer 2" would literally dance themselves to exhaustion to combat fatness. They are classified under the genre of Super Visual Ghetto Tech.*
After one of the dancers left the group to move to some country in Europe, Elaine bay started another group, Golden Jasmine Yeti Dancer. GJYD was almost entirely formed out of spite against said dancer, apparently, although I'm not clear on how that actually worked. I'm not sure if she was kidding or not but she did not retract that fact so I'm going to assume she meant it as the truth.
Later, Bay created the "burkini," a comment on... something? She didn't really explain, just showed us a pic and said she made it with GJYD. I'm guessing it had to do with critisim on the Iraq/Afganistan war(s) due to it being made around 2008. The group also created the Ameros, after a thought experiment about what if all dollars had no value anymore because of a Canada/US/Mexico alliance. GJYD even made fake Ameros (yes, they actually did) again for reasons that were not well explained.
Honestly this lecture made me more confused than anything, but some of her art looked pretty cool, if it lacked description on her part and comprehension on mine.
*I kinda started to lose her at around this point, as she could barely operate the gifs on the computer and had to stop every two minutes to fix it, and was interrupted by her daughter numerous times during the talk, so I appologize for anything that doesn't make much sense.
