From the mind of Magical Trash Mountain, Disaster Kingdom is a recontextualized digital and mixed media archive set in the semi-fictional dystopia of Disaster Kingdom (based heavily on our unfortunate contemporary reality).

It exists in the spaces where the traditional physical world and the metaverse become entangled, muddled…like where a river meets the sea. 

It’s an exploration of liminal spaces…between darkness and levity, fact and fiction, conscious and subconscious thought, past and future, concrete and abstract. 

Currently, Disaster Kingdom is divided into two subprojects: 

1. The Disaster Kingdom Library District

2. Vignettes from Disaster Kingdom 

The Disaster Kingdom Library District seeks to push the concept of Art as NFT, creating unique curated experiences: using assemblage as archive as composition as nonlinear narrative. It also seeks to preserve knowledge and visuals from the past, which would otherwise be lost to time and the elements. 

Each work from The Disaster Kingdom Library District consists of 3 distinct elements, all thematically referencing one another:

1. a unique digital collage postcard from Disaster Kingdom (scanned from items in the artist’s vast personal archive of antique printed media).

2. an assemblage sculpture (composed of a figurine, a stack of antique books, and a cascade of colorful acrylic).

3. a digital archive of the books which have been sealed forever into the sculpture (unlockable content downloadable for personal use only by the person who buys the work).

Combining these discarded, decaying, proletarian objects into a single artwork is a process of curation, preservation, and recontextualization; which elevates the finished product off the thrift store shelf, into the gallery, and immortality in the metaverse.