Pronouns: She/Her
Brande is a graysexual poet, writer, and comedian living in the Snoqualmie Valley. She is the author of “Lutina Before”, a humorous fantasy book for readers ages 10-18.
“Words for Longing”
2021
Mixed media
Exhibited at Rainbow on the Eastside 2023
As a lifelong beachcomber, I’ve always wanted to find a message in a bottle, but haven’t been so lucky yet. I decided that I would write out some of my poetry, seal it into bottles, and cast them to the waves.
Any time I would take a bottle to a beach I would joke with myself that I was “dropping off a resume” and imagine that, somewhere on the shores of spacetime, there exists a seaside village looking to hire a poet and that this was the usual way poets applied for beach haunting positions.
Only my closest friends knew about my secret abandoned poetry project. And then Covid-19 shut the world down. One of my confidants (and supplier of gorgeous scotch bottles) suggested that what with people needing a bit more magic these days, maybe I would consider leaving poetry bottles where people might have a better chance of finding them.
It took some convincing, but I gradually started leaving bottles on lonely trails, then on not so lonely trails, then hiding right out in the open. I’ve grown so bold that I now enlist friends and acquaintances into becoming poetry smuggling accomplices and delivering my messages to likely locations on their travels.
“Lutina Before”
2024
Exhibited at Rainbow on the Eastside 2024
“It can be tough when your mom is a weredragon, even more so when you’re worried you might become one as well!”
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