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✧CERBERUS STAR
two-spirit Laxsgyiik Ts'msyen artist & writer
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CONTACT: star@c-rber.us
i am an illustrator, formline & visual designer, and comic artist; my focuses are animals & nature, anthro & fantasy, and narrative works such as abstract & traditional comics, zines, and poetry. i love creating harmonious palettes, strong shapes, and cel-style shading & colouring.i was raised on Ktunaxa territory in BC, canada, and currently live on Akimel O'odham & Pee Posh lands in arizona, USA.my original work focuses on topics of mental health, survivorship, heritage, spirituality, and social issues i am impacted by; i use animals, surrealism, and fantasy to explore these ideas in empowering & personal ways.
FORMLINE :
shy paraders come out at night, 2024; a fluorescent mural design made in collaboration with Paintillio.
raven's lesson, 2021; a design about being two-spirit & transgender, using the story of how Raven used to be white long ago.
star-crossed, 2023; a design of an eagle catching and eating a salmon, with stars trailing from the salmon's mouth and the eagle's talons. the fate and interplay of all beings in nature.
the salmon runs, the loon rests, 2024; a design depicting a loon with big, simple shapes, and a salmon with a complex, claustrophobic composition.
sunflower delivery service, 2023; a design of Raven holding a sunflower, beholding its beauty.
rainbows in winter, 2024; a design depicting wolves howling to auroras, the rainbows of the north night.
barely contained energy, 2023; a design depicting a canine, bursting with extreme energy and struggling to contain it.
metxa̱laalt ada stukwliin, 2024; a design of a snake and a rabbit, tangled together in a morbid display.
SEMI-REALIST ILLUSTRATION :
this heart is for the wrecking, 2024; in its jaws, a wolf crushes a moon which originates from its own heart.
evidence of life, 2023; depicting salmon eggs floating amidst a cycle of death, violence, and decay - which themselves are essential to the circle of life.
raven steals the sun, 2022; art depicting the adaawx of raven stealing the sun, as told in tsimshian (and other PNW nations') history.
ts'msyenu a ts'm g̱a̱w'iłeeyu, 2023; tsimshian in my veins. a combination of Indigenous kinship with other-than-humans and a critique of blood quantum.
only the stars satiate when skeletons remain, 2023
ts'msyenu a ts'm g̱a̱w'iłeeyu, 2023; tsimshian in my veins. a combination of Indigenous kinship with other-than-humans and a critique of blood quantum.
i saw something in the aurora, 2023; depicting a coyote witnessing something awesome, something terrifying, in the night.
fiendish, 2023
preys of fate, 2024; cover art completed for Brazilian band Foxes on the Run, for their latest EP.
unspoiled horizons, 2024; song cover art done for Brazilian band Foxes on the Run, for their latest EP.
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SEEING THE SKY THROUGH THE STORMS
an illustrated poetry zine spanning 29 pages of poems. all were written in the span from 2016-2018, in the midst of my most significant trauma recovery period so far in my life. it briefly chronicles my journey from feeling trapped in a small town with misunderstanding family, to eloping in a different country in search of a better life. updated 11/2021 with new art and additional poems i had originally left out.
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CATLAMP is my webcomic about a cat who wakes up in a world of complete darkness, other than a solitary talking lamp who they discover nearby. they set out on a journey together in hopes of finding the sun.CATLAMP is lighthearted but meaningful, narratively and visually surreal, inspired by my experiences with psychosis. it's a unique setting and a heartfelt story that features the growth of a friendship in unlikely circumstances, in a cold, confusing world. it is 192 pages divided into 13 chapters, and ran from november 21st, 2018 to january 1st, 2022.