Kriss De Jong

Artist-Musician-FiberArtist in Oakland, California

Kriss De Jong

Artist-Musician-FiberArtist in Oakland, California

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The Antidote to De-Skilling. Queer. Freak. Gimp. Musician. Artist. Radical. AnarchoDyke. Co-Founder of Killer Banshee Studios with my intensely loved spouse & partner Eliot.

I work in many media - from video performance (aka live cinema), acrylic, ink, fiber (knit, crochet, sew, embroidery - including machine embroidery), object creation from sculpture to functional objects & bas relief installations in concrete building façades...working by hand & also programming laser cutters & CNC units. All ridiculously limited by my health

I'm a zipperhead. (If you aren't familiar that refers to people with Chiari Malformation/Cranio cervical instability type issues that involve cutting into you from mid-skull to about T1.) I also deal with Ehlers-Danlos & Adhesive Arachnoiditis & Spina Bifida Occulta among a laundry list of other complicated disease processes. I'll not go into it any further here

Back in my working for outside companies existence I started as an Orchestra member in the Koningklijk Conservatorium Brussel. Came back to the states & went to college acquiring more musical & fine art skills, but also my first career - Librarian (well, I had worked in various positions in libraries since I was 12 - no joke)...post college I worked as the Head Librarian in a variety of corporate libraries.

As gimp issues/health issues began to interfere I trained myself in web dev & technical writing. That and our early digital music studio led via happy accident to becoming part of early development of Res Rocket Surfer worked continuing into Res Rocket & on into it's final existence as Rocket Network. Left during the purging of the freaks (which predictably then soon resulted in the demise of Rocket Network).

I create art when I can. I create music when I can. I work on our extensive urban garden when I can. I continue to exist.