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    • book of myths (2025)
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    • Conjuring the Ghost Kingdom (2023)
    • Spectres (2024)
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    • Watching/Waiting (2023)
    • Intervention (La Biennale) (2022)
    • Ghost Visions (2021)
    • Plague Manifesto (2020)
    • Stop/Motion (2020)
    • Beyond/Within (2019)
    • flags of unseen nations (2017)
    • signal + noise (2017)
  • Residencies
    • Vermont Studio Center (2025)
    • Ragdale (2025)
    • VCCA (2025)
    • The Poor Farm Experiment (2024)
    • Hambidge (2024)
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Joy Ray

  • Works
  • Installation Views
    • book of myths (2025)
    • A Thought is a Thread (2025)
    • VOICE[S] (2025)
    • Nightingale (2024-25)
    • a mirror with breath like stone (2023)
    • Conjuring the Ghost Kingdom (2023)
    • Spectres (2024)
    • momentary afterlife (2024)
    • Watching/Waiting (2023)
    • Intervention (La Biennale) (2022)
    • Ghost Visions (2021)
    • Plague Manifesto (2020)
    • Stop/Motion (2020)
    • Beyond/Within (2019)
    • flags of unseen nations (2017)
    • signal + noise (2017)
  • Residencies
    • Vermont Studio Center (2025)
    • Ragdale (2025)
    • VCCA (2025)
    • The Poor Farm Experiment (2024)
    • Hambidge (2024)
  • Publications
  • CV
  • About
  • Press
  • Contact
  • Instagram
 

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"Trapped in a garish casino filling with seawater"

November 24, 2018

“…living in his America feels like being trapped in a garish casino that is filling with seawater,

because that is what it is. - David Roth

Read: This Is All Donald Trump Has Left. (as close to perfect as anything can get)

 
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Talisman (the last refrain), 18”x18”, 2018 (fiber, acrylic, paint). Our doomsday cult prepares for the inevitable. What comes next?

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