The Art and Design of Morgen Sellier

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Driven by pnuematics and McKibbens air muscles, and using a Microsoft Kinect as its 'eyes,' Skullery was a large technical challenge. The hope was to create a piece of art that would track its audience across the gallery. On the night of the exhibition, I was rewarded with viewers being surprised by, creeped out by, and ultimately delighted with Skullery's interaction with them. 

Chinese American, Fake Japanese Iraqi-Mexican-German-Trini The hybrid masks project is intended to give visibility to those with mixed identities. In these first two I focused on cultural identity, but in the future I'd like to expand to include other categories such as gender and sexuality. 

Guns and Ships is a text-based adventure game intended to showcase a more diverse cast and create a game where kindness helps influence players' chances for the better. It is currently still in beta.

2013. Mixed media: wood, found objects, clay. A physical representation of self-loathing, and the toxicity of said emotion. 

Done in Photoshop. Two interpretations of the prompt "In and Out," both critiquing the idea of a gender and sex binary. 

Done in Photoshop. A remix of Max Ernst's 1944 "The King Playing With The Queen," reinterpreted through an angry feminist lens.

Happy Halloween! An exercise in creating a composite object out of many smaller ones turns creepy in honor of the season.

Done in Photoshop. An editorial-style illustration critiquing the fatphobia and racism issues within the fashion world.

Created in Photoshop. Part of a collaborative, art-directed project to design a cohesive advertising campaign for an imaginary product line.

Exercise in creating a tiling pattern.

Experimental film done for my Individualized Mentorship class. Shot on an iPhone 5 and Mac laptop webcam. I used Crisco, cayenne pepper, and found wood/fabric for the painting.

The manifestation of a personal attribute or emotion through some sort of physical mutation. Done in ink--technical pen and brush pen--for my Illustration 1 class.

Wonder Woman fighting the patriarchy demon, done for my Illustration 1 class. We had to take a pop culture figure and merge them with the likeness of one of our classmates. Done in watercolor.

Technique studies of one of my stuffed animals. From top: watercolor wash, markers (attributing random colors to low, mid, and high value areas), brush and sumi ink, technical pen, acrylic, and finally colored pencil. Done for my Illustration class.

Hormone packaging and associated comic. Done digitally for my Individualized Mentorship class. The aim was to explore how a semi-oppressive matriarchy would influence how a society viewed transgender rights, and then explore how that manifested through packaging. Babilary, the society in question, is a fictional land set somewhere near Japan and China.

Two-page spread for the "Bremen Town Musicians." Done with brush and colored ink for my Illustration 2 class.

Chapter illustration for the who-dun-it short story "The King of Yellow." Done in black Prismacolor pencil for my Illustration 2 class. 

Gesture drawings from model, one minute. Fifteen minute contour drawing from model. Self-portrait from mirror. Charcoal under drawing (top) and final done in Conte crayon (bottom). Inkwash drawings from model, twenty minutes.

Work from my jewelry class at CCA. The top pieces are cast bronze, while the bottom are cast aluminum, both made using the lost-wax method. Front piece for a necklace, about ten inches across. Nickel, copper, and bronze. Available for purchase at $50. My cityscape pin featured in CCA's first-year exhibition. Nickel and copper. Available for purchase at $20. Contact me if interested. Hand-made, hand-carved silver ring, set with a blue topaz. Size 5.5 ring, available for purchase at $75. Contact me if you're interested.