Hello to all you lovely folks.
My name is Ian but most call me BB (short for Billy Bones, an amalgamation of alter egos so to speak). As of mid-June 2024, I have been living in Nuwu (the “Las Vegas/Henderson” area).
I am an artist, storyteller, and creative to my very core. I am what many would consider a multi-disciplinary artist and work with a variety of mediums but I most frequently come back to painting, drawing, photography, and piecing together jewelry. In addition to the work I do that centers around my own internal worlds and experience, I also use photography and art to document and empower a variety of queer fashion and identities, marginalized people, and other “alternative”/systemically oppressed beings.
I am a great many things and more often than not I struggle with labels and find myself never comfortably fitting in any one particular box. I call myself a “Quantum Queer” because I am infinite and often find myself stepping outside of my physical body and linear time. I will forever be an explorer of the expanse of consciousness. I am many selves in a single physical anchor. I predominantly identify as a Queer/Non-Binary person and while my appearance can read as somewhat “masc” my gender and sexuality are in constant shifting motion.
As someone whose body is a political warzone and whose life is affected by politics (and the politics of those I interact with) I prefer that folks know where I stand:
I stand in solidarity with the ongoing fight for Black, Brown, and Indigenous liberation and empowerment.
I stand in solidarity with Indigenous people and their ongoing fight for the return of their ancestral lands and sovereignty. I stand in solidarity with the MMIW2SR (Missing Murdered Indigenous Women Two Spirit Relations) movement and spreading awareness of the disproportionate violence and murder of Indigenous Women, Two Spirits, Children, and Relations.
I stand in solidarity with sex workers and am a firm believer that sex work should be decriminalized (and that sex workers are empowered with the protections and resources that *they* communicate they want and need). Similarly, I stand against body policing and believe that women, trans, queer, non-binary folks, BIPOC, disabled, and anyone else have the right to decide what they want to do with their bodies.
Nobody is free
until we are all free.
Free Palestine.
End genocide.
End slavery and the exploitation of indigenous peoples, resources, and land (globally).
(And on that note – please support your local black, brown, indigenous, and marginalized businesses and communities! 🌱I will be adding links/resources for local businesses and community events in the future and will also write up and post information/suggestions on how to find places near to you!)
I stand against supremacy, oppression, and exploitation in it’s many forms and flavors and am unlearning the indoctrination and social programming that had been built into me every day. I want to surround myself with people that are doing the same.
I want to leave this world helping to heal it both for those living now and to do what I can to aid, nurture sustainability, and better the land and community for the generations that come after.
Silence enables violence. Use your voice.
Past Shows
- SetNYC’s horror themed show @Lovecraft in 2017
- #Sendnudes hosted by Chicpeajc in 2017
- Pride hosted by O’Leary’s Publik House 2019
- Destiny hosted by JCTC 2020
- Resistant Women hosted by JCTC 2020
I have also worked and had art at multiple conventions, donated work to our good friends at JC Burlesque, among other things – and I am always looking for new ways to engage with the communities that matter to me. If you know of a show or an event that you think could be of mutual interest, feel free to let me know!