About Magical Trash Mountain:
Magical Trash Mountain is a visual artist, archive recontextualizer, and enchanter of trash. Trained as a horticulturist, immersive artist, sculptor, and photographer, she relies heavily on improvisation and her wholistic worldview to create captivating experiences, regardless of the medium.
About the Disaster Kingdom project: From the mind of @magicaltrashmountain,
Disaster Kingdom is a recontextualized digital and mixed media archive. It exists in the spaces where the traditional physical world and the metaverse become entangled, muddled…like where a river meets the sea. It’s an exploration of liminal spaces…between darkness and levity, fact and fiction, consciousness and subconsciousness, past and future, concrete and abstract.
Currently, the Disaster Kingdom project is divided into two subprojects:
1. The Disaster Kingdom Library District
2. Vignettes from Disaster Kingdom
Vignettes from Disaster Kingdom is a series of collage animations, each paired with a haiku or limerick. All are set in the fictional dystopia of Disaster Kingdom. All the fodder for these works is scanned from Magical Trash Mountain’s extensive collection of antique paper media, which has been gathered from thrift shops, estate sales, and little Free Libraries over many years of foraging. The vignettes combine imagery and typography from the past, with dark humor and contemporary thematic elements. Their goal is to spark dialogue about our situation as we, collectively, fall into entropy.
Disaster Kingdom Vignette #1:
"Hop in. Buckle up.
Ignition anxiety.
Apocalypse vibe."
Disaster Kingdom Vignette #2:
"MISLEADING TITLE:
Sinister structures sparkle.
Fiction usurps non."
