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Deer Mete

@deer.wesleyhicks.art

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Here I'm a deer, 34, Los Angeles, elsewhere I'm an academic-artist-musician or something of the like.

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Deer Mete

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I assembled a vest I'm calling my southwest vest. Its got national parks pins and deer pins. Many of the petroglyph pins are by Alice Seely.

A vest with lots of metal pins on it. There are many pins of deer and pins from differ t national parks in the united states. There are also lots of petroglyph pins.

September 1, 2025 at 4:19 AM

Deer Mete

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Glaze

August 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM

Deer Mete

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No parking and remember to breath grass.

Crayons on a paper using a hot plate.

A crayon drawing with an aardvark and various flowers that says no parking and remember to breath grass.

August 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM

Deer Mete

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Deer and fox have a picnic on the grass with lots of fruit.

Drawn using crayons on heated paper

I crayon drawing of a deer and fox standing on grass with many species of fruit around them. This includes lychees, bananas, mango, coconut, limes, melon, pears, durian, tomatoes, strawberries, chiles, blackberries, raspberries, cherries, black and red currents, pineapple, blueberries, eggplant, plum, apples, lemon, peach, persimmons and longans.

August 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM

Deer Mete

@deer.wesleyhicks.art

I have no idea what I'm doing.

August 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM

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Here's an update on one of my 'growler' instruments.

July 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM

Deer Mete

@deer.wesleyhicks.art

Two images from Las Vegas Furcon 2025, the last hurrah at a room party before the end of the con. This was taken just before 2 am on Monday morning. I really like the call and response that took place in this moment, it was marked with a feeling in me of not wanting the con to end.

A fisheye image of the last hurrah at Las Vegas Furcon 2025. In the image the party host has his hand in the air, calling out that the party, and the con are about to end (just before 2 am monday morning)

Here is an excerpt from my essay on furrycon room parties:

I managed to capture some of the celebration at the very end of the convention. These events are happening mere hours before the 11am checkout time on Monday Morning. A quite literal last hurrah of the night, a celebration to the inevitable end of the convention and the transformations that have happened.

The intense atmosphere of this moment stands with me. There was such a strong sense of the end, something this is encroaching. In the furry fandom this is called post con depression, it is a distinctly sad feeling, a pit in one's stomach, that is accompanied at the end of a furry convention. It is the feeling that you want this to last forever and you are faced with the inevitability that it must end. I find it amazing and quite interesting that there was a lingering sense at that moment to keep going as long as possible. We collectively avoid the tasks that are to come, we avoid the fact that this entire party space needs to be returned to the state of being a hotel room in just a few hours.

A fisheye image of the audience response to the last hurrah at Las Vegas Furcon 2025. The guests raise their cups into the air cheering on just as the con are about to end (just before 2 am monday morning)

Here is an excerpt about this scene from my essay on furrycon room parties:

I managed to capture some of the celebration at the very end of the convention. These events are happening mere hours before the 11am checkout time on Monday Morning. A quite literal last hurrah of the night, a celebration to the inevitable end of the convention and the transformations that have happened.

The intense atmosphere of this moment stands with me. There was such a strong sense of the end, something this is encroaching. In the furry fandom this is called post con depression, it is a distinctly sad feeling, a pit in one's stomach, that is accompanied at the end of a furry convention. It is the feeling that you want this to last forever and you are faced with the inevitability that it must end. I find it amazing and quite interesting that there was a lingering sense at that moment to keep going as long as possible. We collectively avoid the tasks that are to come, we avoid the fact that this entire party space needs to be returned to the state of being a hotel room in just a few hours.

July 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM

Deer Mete

@deer.wesleyhicks.art

I made these deer hoofprint stamps last year. I just used them again to make some last min glaze tests. I'm going to use them to sign some of my work as well. Its funny, they weren't that interesting to me last year but since finding them again they seem all too perfect.

July 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM

Deer Mete

@deer.wesleyhicks.art

Is there such a thing as a furry musical instrument? These are experiments in making a 'growler' form that is a long tube. For lack of a better word I am calling these growlers for now, I'll come up with a better name soon.