Dorothy's Site

Current Works

Timeslot (2025)

"Timeslot" is a portrait of the artist's struggle with time. Her existence as an alter in an extremely fragmented plural system severely limits her ability to learn new skills, engage in passions, have leisure time, or even just discover who she is as a person due to the fact that she has to share her life with many others in her head.

She chooses to illustrate that conflict through a 101 Dalmatians Clock, a nod to her being a Dalmatian in an identity way and in "headspace". Other than her connection with the breed, she takes comfort in the series' symbolism of 99 puppies that look almost the same, all having to share their parents' affection. It's not dissimilar from her own brain, packed with people vying for time to be alive and aware.

Drawn live on-stream on 3/28/2025. Was feeling very discouraged by circumstance and wanted to vent it out. Not exactly where I want my art style to be, but it's hard to develop a style separate from the system's. I'd like there to be more texture and crunch.

I uploaded a portion of the stream where I explained my thought process here, but just note that while verbose when typing my speaking skills are lacking.

Pre-Actualization

At this point of our life, I was still blurred with the collective whole and didn't know I existed yet. It's hard to exactly explain if you're not an alter. The pieces I made during this time were very few, but I still think I should add them.

"After" Kandinsky with Audrey II as the Subject (2024)

An after of Vasily Kandinsky's "Striped (1934)" themed around Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors. While I did handle the art direction on this, the subject matter and drive to create this came from Vurren (our host). Kandinsky was the first "Old Master" that really moved me with his art, which is why it hurts that he and all the other "greats" were bigots. It makes sense given the time period, but it's disappointing nonetheless. I'd do a lot of things differently were I to make this piece again today, but it's nice here as a time capsule.

a fragment of realness in a false body (2023)

Made this during a depersonalization/dissociation episode. At this point of our life (and still today, though less extreme) neither our body nor ourself felt real, like we were a hobbling shell of a person. In that sense, the only thing that was alive and real about us was our beating heart.

Abstraction (2023)

Another piece about depersonalization/dissociation. It's meant to convey the varied stats of feeling like a person we'd feel each day (which, I'd like to add, has gotten much better since we awoke to being plural). The character depicted is Kittylove, my headmate who was masquerading as our fursona at the time.