Chris Girard: Tantrika

About This Archive

This portfolio is a record of my creative process before 2020. Since the pandemic and a long battle with long COVID, my cognitive focus has shifted. I no longer identify as an artist in the same way. These works reflect a chapter of deep exploration—before I turned inward through the practices of yoga and tantra, where my current creative energy now flows. I invite you to explore this archive as a glimpse into where I’ve been, and what has quietly shaped where I am now.

PhD Thesis by Chris Girard

My PhD thesis comes from five years of artistic research and two MFAs in collage poetry. You can purchase this

Sylvia Plath Collage Installation - Lady/Applicant: The Lazarus

This multimedia collage installation re-imagines the 'authorial identity' of Sylvia Plath from street signs surrounding Plath's residence.

Nine Ninety-Nine Only Store: Free Artisan Wallpaper

The NINE NINETY-NINE ONLY STORE offers downloadable high-resolution photography. Download free high-quality photos for wallpaper or prints!

Other Humans: Strange Documentary Photos

Even as an introvert, it was easy to meet people. I am very attracted to people who have strange and

MySpace Era: 2000s Selfies

I am presenting the pretentious selfie as a not-so-pretentious documentary of my past. These selfies began in the early 2000s

Collaborative Video Comics with ESL Students in Spain

A teacher and I collaborated to create videos using artwork & voice-overs from students in Madrid. Spanish justificantes helped me

All But Dissertation / Todo menos la tesis

All But Dissertation (ABD) is an Edgar Allan Poe inspired story offered in Spanish and English. Santa Cruz is haunted

How to Take a Surrealist Photo

Maybe the lens makes a better Photoshop. But every surrealist photo I have made is like writing a poem with

LIKED: Set of 20 Twitter / Twaiku Poems

LIKED is a selection of 400 Twitter twaiku poems by Chris Girard from 2011-2017. It's featured in 20 pamphlets by

VOTE4ART Winner: Hacking an App

Winner of the VOTE4ART app, Tectonic Trees by Chris Girard was displayed at Art Spectrum & Red Dot Miami by

Questions to a(n Answerless) Specter: Collage Poems

Questions to an Answerless Specter is a book of three & ½ collage poems by Chris/toph Girard with a journey

Death Poem: Shadows/Shadows/Tomb

Shadow/Shadows/Tomb, a video death poem by Chris/toph Girard, runs tombstones on four video screens on a program called Max/MSP/Jitter.

Hollywood Forever Cemetery Poem

A tombstone Poem was taken at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The film constitutes engravings found on tombstones from not just celebrities.

Detournement of Stop Signs - Law Series

This detournement consists of repurposed photographs of street signs that are either cropped or framed from their original regulations.

Hyperpoetry: The Route Throughout

The Route Throughout is an epic poem self-published by Chris Girard & distributed on a zine in 2003 & turned

A Max/MSP/Jitter Code Poem: Gestalt

Gestalt is a code poem created by using a collage of the codes that run the visual programming language Max/MSP/Jitter

A Book of Hypertext Poems: TRY ME.

TRY ME. is a series of hypertext poems by Chris/toph Girard translated from spam email. A link to the digital

A John Berryman Collage Poem - Henry's Body

Henry's Body: A Thousand Hacks is an audio collage poem made from the all the words taken from poet John

MFA Thesis: Ten and One Left: Eleven-Line Poems

Ten and One Left is a 64-page series of 11 line poems taken and collaged from LiveJournal. This is my

Strength Through Song: Hardcore Documentary

2000s Hardcore Documentary: Strength Through Song

Strength Through Song is a hardcore documentary. It is a look into the 2000s with vegan straight edge members touring

A sleepwalking poem stops the rain from resting

Conceptual Writing Is (Un)conceptual Writing

My approach to conceptual writing is through a postmodern exploration of identity with collage. And how we manifest web and

Blog Posts by Chris Girard

RIP Most Useful, Most Funny, and Most Cool Yelp reviews 2008-2018

RIP Most Useful, Most Funny, and Most Cool Yelp reviews 2008-2018 I almost had my Black Elite 10-year anniversary badge...

The Spanish Consulate of Los Angeles Translation Disaster

Gay Marriage, Leaving the Country, Resistance to Trump-ism in a Nutshell On 12/14/16, I got gay married to an Italian

Answering Every OkCupid Question Ever (Data Scraping)

I answered every OkCupid question ever. Then I data scraped them into this page. Through these questions, I got married

Nokia Flipphone Screen Surrealism (2004)

Boxed in a Box: Enneagram 5w4 Sx/So Instinctual Stackings

I am a 5w4 sx/so in the enneagram, which is an assessment system that categorizes personalities into 9 boxes &

Learning Italian for Spanish Speakers on Duolingo

I played Duolingo every day for three years. I attended speaking events in LA. Now I am learning Italian for

Thousands of Years on Bitlife...

I used Bitlife for 10,000 years and after playing many generations worth of people, I discovered many different things about

All But Dissertation / Todo menos la tesis

All But Dissertation (ABD) is an Edgar Allan Poe inspired story offered in Spanish and English. Santa Cruz is haunted

A Portfolio of Open Source HTML That Would Otherwise Be Lost

This is the dark side of the moon. This is a compilation of open source HTML and CSS I have

No Heart: Learn to Say No to Bad Clients

Web Design Manifesto: Bad Clients

Let this serve as a warning for freelance or on contract web designers. Be careful! Some clients are good. But

Bio Sewage: The 36 Questions That Lead to Love

These are my 36 questions by Arthur Aron that provide great questions for conversation starters. As a spouse and LTR

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