Asia Lae Bey or Assy,
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s a sequential artist working in illustration, video art, and other mediums. They live in Philly, they are from Pittsburgh.
26 They/Them
“I like to tell stories. I know that’s sorta corny and rather obvious, but I regularly feel like there are a billion voices trying to speak but can’t reach the world. I try and find ways for those voices to communicate, I like to think I get pretty close sometimes. I consider myself a sequential artist, not just because I use sequence to complete a piece, but the pieces individually have a motion to them. Sort of like they’re both “here” and not. I try to do that. I want to preserve moments as long as I can. It’s difficult, but I think worth it. Especially as a survivor of various abuses, and constant social obstacles, the language of injury and memory is changing beyond the forms we know, and we can’t keep up if we stop trying to translate. Our lives can become easily obscured that way. It would be a shame if all we felt, or at least an important portion of what we were washed away with the ages without our grasp. I don’t want to discriminate about it, or focus on what I want to remember or do not; I like to see it as an archive of our time. As long as I still feel that I think I will consider myself a sequential artist. I’m tryna run with it.”