Mikah Anderson
Mikah at East End Beach, collaborative portrait.
A high-contrast, black-and-white portrait shows a person lying back against rocks with their eyes closed. He wears a dark tank top featuring a stitched patch that reads "LOSER LESBIAN," a septum piercing, glasses pushed up on top of his head, and a thin beaded necklace, with his right hand resting lightly on his stomach.
01. A digital collage on a sky-blue background featuring a person standing before a white high-rise building, looking up at a colorful, curving piece of distorted lace floating across the sky. A seagull is flying below.
02. A digital collage of film photographs arranged over a grainy photo of the blue sky. The images show blooming purple flowers, small birds in flight, evergreen plants, and a self-portrait of me resting my body in bed in the bottom right.
03. A digital collage with a grainy, saturated film photo of two seagulls as the background. One is in flight and the other is perched below near the bottom right corner. A piece of lace is curving through the sky. Purple pansies surround each bird while vivid pink blossoms occupy the corners.
04. A digital collage on a salmon-colored background featuring a silver sedan in front of a white house, bright magenta flowers, and a turquoise church steeple. A black-and-white “ONE WAY” street sign angles across the upper center, while small blue patterned shapes float around the buildings and car.
05. A digital collage on a wavy background. Purple-blue foliage is the middle ground. A hazy self portrait is in the foreground. An orange blooming lily and a self-love shell spell frame the composition on the outer corners.
06. A layered digital collage of a sunlit forest clearing with dense grasses and trees. A translucent, flying seagull appears near the center, while a large black cat gazes back at the scene in the lower-right foreground.
07. A digital collage self portrait of me sitting in a tie dye top and black shorts. A vibrant garden of blooming flowers is behind me, the composition is framed by a background of lemons. Glittery stickers are sprinkled throughout the collage.
08. A digital collage of a black cat among yellow flowers, the silhouette of a mourning dove sits on a power line behind him. Layered over a lakeside landscape with trees and blue sky, with translucent overlay of distorted white lace.
09. A digital collage combining film and digital photographs: a self-portrait of me pressing a hand to my face during a migraine, layered with images of purple and red flowers, squirrels, tree bark, a cloudy sky, and sunlit foliage
10. A black and white photo of a dilapidating staircase.