Lex Bertch

@bertch313.bsky.social

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They/Them THAT #LANDBACK #WEIRDO Waawiyaatanong, Michigamaa, Turtle Island (aka Detroit) digi&analog #nonbinary #disabled #Artist 🚫AI visual art / beats / vocals need equipment and sponsorship so I can kick more fash 🫏 https://ko-fi.com/bertchstudio

Sunset during wildfires in Canada and Minnesota July 2026 as seen from Belle Isle MI, known originally as Swan Island and is host to many birds species throughout the year, like my fellow dumbass, this seagull I was supposed to be outdoor drumming and that correctly being cancelled should have been my first tip to go to home instead of out for a view. I did not realize it was wildfire smoke until I was off the island and it was still really bad. I originally thought it was just typical haze from the steamy 100°F+ days The sky was completely cloudy except this one hole the sun appeared in for just a moment on its way down, below it is dark cloud/smoke cover to the horizon
Zine graphic, the background is grungy it's a low contrast image of a pocket watch with roman numerals and the winder and chain clasp at the top, the handwritten loosely centered text reads: "Time is the only thing acting upon you the way you imagine God does"
Trunks of a birch tree along the water in Michigamaa / Michigan
Rough but detailed sculpture in wood blocks, of a young child in a dress wrapped tightly in what appears to be yellow caution tape
Abstract digital collage in electric blues purples and pinks the original photo featured a moonrise near the summer solstice 2026
Screenshot of ibis paint app to prove they are my layers and show you the settings on each layer up to that point
Edited portrait, a body of water through some trees is reflected in a huge paper of aviators on the face of a light skinned person with dark hair wearing feather earrings and a leather jacket the colors are 80s neons
Oscar Howe's "the medicine cancer" circa 1965
Heavily 90s "Lunch Money" card game stylized photo of me smoking a store bought cone prerolls (that's the silly part, I smoke ha drolled doobies) In a cowl sweater on a sunny balcony (also silly, but legal here) My hair is in my face and my eyes are obscured in shadow I'm holding the lighter and preroll in the same hand and wearing a 60s old pawn ring on my middle finger Call me the Hempress Leia I guess She's retired and on her cannabis Karen arc, just roaming the galaxy looking for stormtroopers to win over for the new guard...
Screenshot of a YouTube playlist including, in a totally unhinged order Melody Gardot your heart is as black as night Brain Eno, Bestie Wolf procession Cibo Mayo know your chicken Tilt Libel Carsie Blanton ugly nasty commie bitch The whole list is generated from my watch history from her performance of rich people at Red rocks
Me seated, working the drum on a towel on a fur on the floor
15in Maple frame Bison hide drum with a yellow Deer chamois beater in the grass
Many little hand drawn red umbrellas on a white field in different shapes with varying handles
Hand drawn kind of Tim Burton-esque umbrella colored red on a white background
Short video looking up into some enormous pines
Photo of skeletal pre-sprng trees that looks black and white but is in color. They're tall straight and thin, there's a thick bunch in the center that we only see from "neck to knees" and the forest of similar trees behind them curls around the frame of the photo It's really probably neck to waist if I think about it, these trees are huge
Dead Wood forest, Belle Isle State Park
a nonbinary person dressed in a black hoodie, thievery corporation concert t shirt, grey leggings, and black gloves, holding a white rawhide (cow), octagonal frame drum, proudly beaming having just completed it. They are seated on the floor of a small house, a large plastic cutting board and tools are layed out in front of them
I'm not describing this one if anyone else wants to lend a hand with it, be my guest
Requesting alt text help on this one It's a lot for me for the 12 people that are gonna maybe see this
Very tall straight winter trees photographed at a roughly 45 degree angle
Vaguely jellyfish and flower like abstract work in neons purple and blue
Glitched photo of a sound board that vaguely resembles a floating paper letter 📜 The board is broken up into segments and those segments are "highlighted" in psychedelic colors and blurred areas
Bridge in a park covered with a little bit of frozen then melted snow, at dusk when everything goes blue grey The trees are dark in the distance, the sky is light silvery blue on top
A Michigan winter landscape at the sunset golden hour, there's large trees along a split rail fence in the foreground, a snowy field, and a thick stand of woods in the background. The light blue sky is mottled with light grey snow clouds.
Black and white photo of a person bundled up for cold weather inside a messy house They are wearing a white faux fur hat in the style of the one Jamiroquai wears in the virtual insanity video and a 1970s long leather jacket with faux fur lapels, their face and neck are wrapped in pashmina scarf, they are holding the coat closed with their black-gloved hands The messy, house (not mine) is still being moved in to, background is in focus and the person in the foreground is slightly out of focus because technology never actually improves the user experience, it just changes format.
Trees in a nature reserve in Metro Detroit, Michigan
Sunset in November in Michigan straight out of camera Woods across from a higher learning institution
design featuring blue green and yellow rectangles layered like scales or roof tiles, with areas warped by glitches
Ken Jennings account blocked me for calling him autistic 😂
the Mean Girls burn book with a photo of Kristi Noem in ice costume where the fugly slut goes
Ruches Toxique Lex Machina 2009 Almost monochrome gold with some green and pink shadows It's actually about 12 layers. I used to have this original psd file Probably don't anymore since my main backup has disappeared into LEO hands or something
Abstract graphic work in teal grey and black Very subtle rgb chromatic abberations in the grey
air-humping frog
Abstract in blue black and green featuring big black grungey shapes and hexagons
Forg costume Halloween Glitched inflatable frog
Abstract in blue green yellow and orange Stripes and frames inside splatters
Design in sepia browns and white Antique etchings of a pocketwatch, hat, seahorse, lightbulb, skeleton key, octopus tentacles, skull and crossbones, and fillagree curls in darkest brown, float in an endless background of white 3D digital blocks centering on the pocketwatch
White, cream, greys, and teal blues, a little pink and red in there underneath It looks like a cliff or closeup of the bottom of a waterfall to me, but I can see all kinds of creepy/weird shapes and faces and things in this guy Maybe 30-45 mins total, in 2 dif apps Is it an amazing feat of artistic skill (beyond my many years in museums/art books and with my tools?) No. Would I hang it on a wall somewhere and enjoy it anyway? You bet Sometimes I wouldn't, this one I would hang
Art print from https://bertchstudio.threadless.com/designs/curious-ghosts-2/home/fine-art-print
Rows of imagined mushrooms, 7ish by five rows each drawn with only 2 lines in white, cream, khaki, and light brown in black lines on a lavender white background The most visually interesting thing about the drawing is that instead of being aligned by the top or bottom, the horizontal rows of mushrooms are lined up at the point where the cap meets the stipe (or stem) Negative space sometimes gives the effect of dimension, implying exposed undersides or tiny bites out of the caps The coloring is done quick with a marker like a fashion illustration The overall effect is late 60s wallpaper/storybook
Black t shirt mock-up with "antifa terrorist" in white block caps like an event "security" shirt
Glitch art abstract in monochrome black white and grey
Black t shirt with white lettering, modeled from a standard venue "SECURITY" shirt that reads in block capitals "ANTIFA TERRORIST"
Skeet argument explaining how we know white supremacists are in fact a minority
vHS cover for the last supper film 1995 with an unlisted Ron Perlman (from the era where if you billed the star name that helped get the film greenlit at all, everyone would know how the movie ended before it ended)
Close up of the nearly extinct orange price sticker on a record from MAR 96 Bonus points if you know what record it is
Suburban Railroad intersection with a train crossing
Two posts on bluesky The topmost has a 14h timestamp instead of a real timestamp as was normal until the nachos broke it The next post is timestamped 55m This should Underline Not happen Underline is in orange markup
Blurred photo of a Christmas tree lamp on a busy desk in the bottom right corner
Interior from second floor catwalk, of independent video store I love video, declared by a giant interior neon sign, in Austin tx More neon signage declares "open" "we buy & sell" The camera is facing the "cult" section directly below that, in the far corner with rows of video shelves on the floor below
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