I believe in fostering relationships with other human beings through the act of poetic relations using a glitched cyborg lens. All are welcome.

SUPER WEIRD

Queer and Mixed

ARTIST STATEMENT

My name is, Donald Melvin F. Guevara, and I’m an American of Honduran and German ethnicity. At the age of five I was adopted into a Congolese immigrant family with my mother, who is an ex-nun, by my side. This early introduction into contradiction, change, cultural differences and amalgamation, and the complexities of race and gender drive the work that I create. When making, I meticulously sculpt layered collage based works of drawings, found objects, and video to create vignettes and portals into the experience or state of mind that is attached to being within the “in-between” or occupying the space of the AFK (away from keyboard) Glitch. Images are selected, cut apart, and reformulated to create a new image that holds a code and context away from, yet still inherently attached, to the original images. This fusing and melting circumvents the original and gains agency and autonomy as being separate but not separated. Conceptions of the body, gender performativity, race and racial codes, language, and other aspects typically used to compartmentalize the individual are dealt with through the idea of decision making through incision making; slicing oneself into the greater conversation by remixing the original images. Limbs, some of the most difficult parts of the body to code through the lens of gender, twist, wrap, and overlap each other and in this dance is often the display of contradictory bodies and settings superimposed and cut together to become a new whole; the cyborg of cultural mixture in new virtualized arena.