The SunnyGrrrl trash logo represents an evolution in the SunnyGrrrl brand and my overall artistic practice.

Inspired to attempt to make trash art for the #teztrash event by fellow crypto artist Stellabelle, I decided to start by "trashing up" my SunnyGrrrl logo to better understand the concept.

Trash art is "supposed" to be low effort and I couldn't think of anything more low effort than tracing and altering my existing logo with a needle cap spray paint brush. This was my first time buying a specific brush for a specific project, and really my first time using a different brush than my usual default Procreate studio pen. Despite being "low effort", adapting to a new brush, which felt like using real spray paint that I'd never used before meatside either, took a few hours and a few tries to get the logo to look the way I wanted it to.

The reason I started with my logo, in taking on this challenge, was because my logo is me and it brings me joy to put it on t-shirts and merchandise @ https://sunnygrrrl.threadless.com, but less than 7 people have ever purchased any of it and I'm my own biggest customer. The reason people don't rock my brand, I think, is because I'm seen as trash for being naked all over the internet and talking openly about sex, and if people rocked my logo and someone googled it, they'd feel like trash by association. And no one wants to feel like trash...

I chose graffiti aesthetics to "trash up" my logo because it's always been an underground subculture, and a lot of society still sees graffiti as something that "trashes up" a city and isn't real art. Most people don't think logos are art either and I've always found graffiti to be beautiful and interesting, even the most rudimentary of works. I've always wanted to tag a building with my logo or just one of my skulls, but I didn't want to chance being arrested. Plus, my logo is so obviously me, unlike traditional graffiti tags that are purposely obscure. Creating this trash logo and using a pressure sensitive brush that felt like spray paint really scratched that itch, and I plan to use more of it in my work.

I am proud to join the lower echelons of the trash nouveau!