onceupon afelony

The piece, Faerie Tayler Presents: “Once Upon a Felony”, requests that people sit down and talk about the far reaching effects of the incarceration of our loved ones; a true American faerie tale.

When I returned home from being incarcerated over a decade ago, I was eager for advocacy, but burnt out quickly; it’s a big system to fight.  I turned my creativity to entertainment; became a performance artist and event producer. 

From my first incarnation as a woman weaving pubic hair on the beach to defy the image of shaved skin as the norm, to recreating my prison cell in a U-haul, Faerie Tayler is an ongoing fairy tale series. This piece, “Once Upon a Felony”, is about freedom and the ability to represent myself, artistic citizenship, and using my public art as a civic function. I believe in radical expression, civic engagement, transparency, inclusion, a DO-anything-NOW mentality, and how art can evolve our neighborhoods into more empathetic and compassionate places.