hi there! i'm a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and lover of sleep based in atl, ga. life to me is somewhere between a fever dream, a surreal 70s horror film, and disturbing-yet-heartwarming fairy tale. creating art across the boundaries of medium and form is how i make sense of that.
i built this website and paid for the domain when i really needed a job. then i got a job i was very happy with, so i decided that it was safe to use my personal corner of the internet in a way that was more authentically me. i no longer have that job, but i have enjoyed authenticity too much to go back now. i cannot bear to sanitize my Personal Website for the sake of mutating it into a more employable portfolio. my art did not win me my last job, and i was incredibly successful at it regardless. if there is an employer out there who wants me for my art, they will want it strange and erratically-yet-intricately presented, or they will not want it at all.
truthfully, i really miss the early days of the web, when instead of curated instagram feeds people just made butt-ugly websites and took up as much space as they wanted about whatever niche subject they wanted to use that space for. so i'm hoping to just continue posting my art here. maybe my thoughts on art. maybe nothing of the sort. who knows!
here's to never feeling like my portfolio is something that has to be clean and polished and BORING ever again.
welcome, slumbernauts
although I currently live and love in atlanta, talladega county, AL is home. <3
if you happen to be interested in hiring me, please email me at annabetholivia@gmail.com - i do in fact have a regular resume!