Projects

CLOSE ONE! forthcoming 2025

“& my scars remind me that the past is real”
- Papa Roach

a queer poetic investigation of scars as counter-archive, memory map, the anti-icloud. Merging interviews, poetics, collaging, and photo-documentation, CLOSE ONE! explores queer storytelling and identity in relation to the body, time, and memory.

supported by ArtReach

DEVOTIONAL CHAOS

Collaborative zine series with Mic Jones.
Featured in Issues’ Zine Shine

“Got Jesus on my necklace-ace-ace” - Ke$ha

Episode 1 of Devotional Chaos is a collaborative cough up altar, an ongoing queer exploration of the feral divine. (belief, spirit, irony, transmuting religious trauma, riffing, patterns, pocket trash)

Poems, collage, and ephemera to yearn to, risk to, pee while on speaker phone to.
We are concerned with the new “salvation” but more conerned with inventing the new word for “meme”.

6 Clicks to Jesus

In 6 Clicks to Jesus, Melly structures and titles a suite of poems around Wikipedia game in which players click hyperlinked text to arrive at the entry of God's supposed son. Informed by the intertextuality of internet rabbit holes, these poems combine reference to 90s rock and Web 1.0 with text stolen from YouTube tarot readings and bathroom stall graffiti, to sketch a portrait of a pool shark reckoning with the faith and misogyny of their past.
- Cason Sharpe, Guest Editor

in the hole Brings together physical manifestations of the works developed for Silverfish's third print publication. The featured artists put forward a divergent collection of holes: ranging from the erotic, to the erased, to the subterranean.

6CLICKS2JESUS.mp4 for in the hole

Single take screen record. Hyperlink surfing 6 clicks & their digital ecosystems in real divine dirtbag time.

Pocket Trash

Collage series for in the hole

Sandra, like a cuss

GLYPHORIA Issue V: Translating Language and

The merging of peotics and live coding through the platform Hydra. Exploring diasporic soundscapes. Constructed using home video footage.

Passing Through

Featured in Growth from Within, a publication from The Toronot Biennial of Art - reflections from the 6 storytellers of the 2022 Bienniel.

Also featured in:

Oral Method Reading Series
ARC Poetry Magazine
Pigeon Pages NYC
Rumble Sound System Vancouver
Probably Poetry