I'm refining Empress Trash's brand voice to be warmer, plainer, and more conversational, emphasizing hype and an earnest, personal, and gushy tone to guide future updates.

This week's Decentraland open studio features a summer solstice pool party, a new open edition for the PanelHaus residency, and three YouTube streams. Come hang out!

I’ve been an artist my entire life. I have a BFA and a long history of creation, so whether I’m a “real” artist is not up for debate in my mind. Even so, when I began using AI, I lost collectors and longtime supporters. People who already knew my situation acted as if I had suddenly become less of an artist or less of a person. That betrayal piled on top of the grief I already carried about possibly never drawing or painting again. I kept integrating AI into my practice anyway. I have to make...

We are rolling into summer and I have been cooking up a lot of great things in Decentraland for you all. After rediscovering it in March I've been going full throttle. Here is what is the news:Decentraland YouTube Livestreamer + UGC Community LeadI'm super proud to announce I'm officially streaming on Decentraland YouTube 3 times a week in their pilot program. This is a paid gig, which I'm super proud of, because it now fulfills my lifelong dream of being a pro-gamer. I've been having a lot o...

I just deployed my own custom Auction House on Ethereum mainnet through the GBM protocol. GBM is a win-win auction system where bidders earn rewards when they get outbid. The higher the bid, the higher the reward. This turns auctions into an event where everybody wins. The platform fee is only 2% as well, so it's one of the best win/win/win models I've seen. Here is a cute video they have made when I requested more info: With all the platform drama I've (we all have really) experienced as an ...

This year for my birthday I decided to start a new tradition to break my birthday curse once and for all in which I create an open call for art to put together a Metaverse gallery and party. The theme of this open call I decided should be centered around the astrological themes of my birthday ~ Cusp of Rebirth. Pisces is the last sign of the Zodiac, and Aries the first, so the transition period of March 17th - 23rd is referred to as the Cusp of Rebirth. All Zodiac signs inbetweens have cusps....

Hey all - I have been since right before Valentine's Day deep in SubstrataVR. It started with a Valentine's Day party hosted by Bitpixi and Gutter Sam which they paid me to do the the music in my first paid DJ gig! Then Gutter Sam gifted me a parcel, and I've been building and building! I have made multiple galleries and feel pretty confindent in my building skills. You can check them out in browswer or on desktop in the following links. galeria de basura // all my 1/1 works on SuperRareGaler...

I have been staring at this new piece that I created with Grok for hours now, her curves melting into that iridescent chrome exoskeleton while space cracks open like a glitchy orgasm all around them. It is not just the visuals that have me hooked. It is the pull of it, the way the softness of her skin presses right up against the brutal geometry of metal, how one yields in its warmth while the other demands everything in return, unyielding and eternal. I am obsessed in that full-body, heart-h...

It's been a few since I wrote an article. I have been in holiday isolation/recovery mode. Last fall (that's September to December 2025 for the calendar purists), I dove headfirst into the Sincretismo Digital Art Residency hosted by the incredible Wait & Hope Foundation in Mexico City. If you've been following my X timeline, you know this was a game-changer for me, after years of residency rejections and weirdness, getting that acceptance email on October 6th had me ugly-crying in the best way...

I was that little girl who watched Star Trek: TNG late-night Saturdays and dreamed of having a holodeck, so of course I love VR. I have played Beat Saber and done VR painting for a few years now and recently started streaming when I am in VR. I have shoulder/neck/right side injuries and pain issues which I have been dealing with for years from a lifetime of repetitive stress from manual labor, painting, and unfortunately compounded with injuries and trauma that was causing so many symptoms in...