Egan Walker
eganwalker.comEgan Walker is a visual artist and experimental writer. This semester, he will graduate from the University of San Francisco with a B.A. in English with a Creative Writing concentration and a Fine Arts minor. His favorite mediums include sewing, graphite drawing, watercolor painting, and linoprinting. He makes art about his weird relationship to gender, romances that go wrong, the 2000s emo scene, and northern California. Outside of art, Egan loves live music, moving bodies of water, and anarchic archiving practices. Most recently, his work has been exhibited in Thacher Gallery in Echoes of Becoming, and his poetry published in Cul-de-sac of Blood and Ignatian. You can find him on eganwalker.com, but he will probably be out, hiding in the crowd of a pop-punk cover band or skulking along the banks of the Yuba river.
(1) BLUE SILK RIBBON, ARCHIVED AT FRENCH CORRAL, CA
(1) BLUE SILK RIBBON, ARCHIVED AT FRENCH CORRAL, CA is about how much I loved being a girl. Even though I’m not a woman anymore, I still feel very connected to femininity and am fascinated by the opposite of my experience: becoming a woman on purpose. Eleanor Morietti (left) and Vivian Greyhound (right) are from my recent fiction stories, set in the Sierra Nevada mountains. French Corral is a ghost town on one end of the first long distance telephone line, in use from 1878-1898. Sewing Eleanor and Vivian together and to the telephone line ties them to the history of the Sierra Nevada and to my personal practices of mending and archiving. Illustrating Eleanor and Vivian at life size means taking my work and their struggles with femininity (and subsequently, my own) seriously.