Crush/Repeat 2024
It was another quiet year, this time under the weight of genocide in Gaza. Several artists chose to explore this theme, while other perennial participants chose to focus on activism instead. As always the details were simple: Anyone who wanted to share their work through the month via Instagram was invited to do so, and anyone who made any amount of work during March could submit to our web gallery. The show unfolded daily through the month as artists shared their new pieces with each other. We love the world we see reflected and imagined in these projects, and we are so honored to be able to present them to you now.
2024 Artists
Andrea Paz
Andrea is 29 -year-old (still) bisexual femme who dabbles in way too many art forms, as neurodivergent as she. Having experienced C/R in 2022 and dealing with the Gaza genocide, I used this month to engage in my art to be in community with others who wanted to heal and heal others while being witnesses and for it, I'd title it this year-" from all rivers to all seas"
To see more or to purchase works, follow @musaapollinis on Instagram.
Audrey Kai
Audrey is a non-binary artist of Vietnamese descent based in the South Bay Area. They love taking photos of whatever causes them to do a double take and knitting until their wrists hurt. Witnessing the ongoing displacement and genocide happening in Palestine made it difficult to choose a singular 30 day project to work on this Crush/Repeat. They decided to keep it low stress, following whatever creative spark came up that day. Allowing each day to unfold as it was, whether it included a creative endeavor or not.
For more, follow @bubblegumforfriends on Instagram.
Danielle Morgan-Scharhon
Danielle is a queer artist and filmmaker living in beautiful Bellingham, WA who loves spending time in the forest and on the ocean when she's not in the edit room. Starting with the prompt, “Look Up”, an invitation and reminder to appreciate the qualities of the Pacific Northwest sky, Danielle used watercolors and a small format (tiny 2X3" paper) to create a daily practice of painting for a minimum of 5 mins. The result feels like a mini hyper-local weather report.
To see more or to purchase works, check out her website and follow @stellazdynamite on Instagram.
Heidi Denkers
Heidi is a dabbler in expressive arts. Mister Heidi just lost 22 videos for a course that went live right before Crush/Repeat, her entire closet broke from the wall and crashed down, and she’s one person short from her team at work while trying to train two more. This Crush/Repeat she decided to just do “whatever.” She took a bunch of photos, but the funnest result was completing an old painting of The Cat Wrangler deity taking the shadow cats through the Multiverse.
To see more or to purchase works, follow @therarewildheidi on Instagram and TikTok.
Jess George
Jess dials into Crush/Repeat every year from Kentucky. This year she spent this Crush/Repeat drawing flowers that grow or are native to Palestine.
Follow @_jaygee_ on Instagram for more.
L.M. Zoller
is a queer non-binary writer and artist living on Duwamish land. In addition to collage art, their creative projects include horror-themed cross-stitch art, food writing, and zines. L.M.'s inspiration for most of this series was flowers and hands, especially Laura Palmer's hands in Twin Peaks (specifically the "meanwhile" scene). Most of the collages explore symbolism in Twin Peaks: hands, owls, the darkness of the woods, spirals and portals, and a sense of being trapped. The Rebecca-themed collage features an image of Joan Fontaine as the Second Mrs. de Winter in Rebecca (1940), oversized peonies and the moon (evoking the opening lines of the book), and in the background, a hint of the fire.” Their fundraiser for Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund during Crush/Repeat raised $112.
To see more or to purchase works, check out their website and follow @illmakeitmyself on Instagram.
Leah Radecki
Leah is an artist in Seattle who enjoys spending time with their dogs. For Crush/Repeat Leah created watercolor paintings of watermelons. Leah’s heart aches for the people impacted by the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Follow @seattleleftist on Instagram for more.
Sunday H. Service
Sunday is a white north american queer creative worker of the west coast interested in food/flowers/f*cking, madness, death care, this colonial-extractive-imperialocene, layers of Liberation and the Divine Mystery. She kicked off a to-be-continuous project they have been stewing and saw Crush/Repeat as a bit of an endurance start to it. Portrait Portrait takes two "Portraits" and chats up the images/aspects/creations/creators/contexts of the pieces/works/situations; or sometimes just offers two ideas of Portraits together. Sunday Hellion Service wanted to make something that allowed her into a variety of fields and touched into art history, the absurd, and now. She is stoked to have this format for on-going thinking/exploring in creative realms.
Follow @sunday_h_service_ on Instagram for more.
