Untitled (Light Codes No. 001 - 006)
2” x 2”
Spray paint, flat back half pearls, rhinestones, aluminum cabochons, glue, resin, paint markers on Ceramic tiles

Untitled (Celestial Map 008)

Acrylic paint, spray paint, flat back half pearls, rhinestones, aluminum cabochons, glue

uncanny encounters (2020)

shot on 35mm by vie darling in Los Angeles in 2020. From Chinatown to Santee Alley, the eerie images reflect the isolation and desolation born from during the COVID-19 lockdown.

le futur proche (2016)

shot, directed, produced by vie darling || mua: kamilah brewster || model: mopelola adesina

angels & other outliers: a divine feminine study (2016)

shot, directed, produced: vie darling || mua: kamilah brewster || styling: pauli cakes || models: phoebe mack, pauli cakes, yasmin ben-david, mopelola adesina

La Huesera: My Exorcism of Barbelo (2023)

Seven Seals of Cognitive Dissonance Can we create something beautiful and destroy it? Nobody knows I dream about it, this is my imagination

GET READY WITH ME: Assimilating on Earth (2022)

Get Ready With Darling Vie to Assimilate as an extraterrestrial on Earth. What does Darling consider when getting ready on Earth? What goes into their Process?

The Party + the Afterparty (2021)

The Party & the Afterparty is a sonic exploration of a harrowing yet exhilarating phase of growth that is juvenescence. Serving as a window into the fever dream of coming-of-age, Vie Darling seeks to invoke the sensory experience of the chaotic by layering audio as one fashions a collage, crafting an intimate and intense portrait of the extreme ups and downs of a life lived in the fast lane. Set your volume to medium and don’t adjust it— no matter what.

Surrender is the Opposite of Obsession (2020)

This multidisciplinary performance art video featuring an original poem written by the artist who is shown going through an hours-long process of beautification speaks to the shift of how we as people in the modern world relate to one another and ourselves while facing an unsure, ever evolving future shaped by global pandemic, racial revolution, and rapid spiritual / emotional awakening across the board. How do we perform our identities when there is no audience but ourselves to witness? How much of our expression is for the world? What belongs to us? How do we sit with solitude and situate ourselves within our lives? What grounds us as the very foundation of our personhood is being subject to cataclysmic change? Amplifying the voices of Black femmes, Vie uses the medium of video to interrogate their own existence as a queer non binary Black femme, inviting us —in our varying identities and intersections — to do the same.

Shown in the group show, TEXTS (2020) at haul gallery in Brooklyn NY

GODDESS II (2020) — multimedia art project accompanying a poetry zine

GODDESS II ushers in the Age of Aquarius, 5D consciousness ascension, and the Return of the Divine Feminine, serving as a reconciliation of Self in which I synthesize the disjointed, compartmentalized, not fully formed versions of myself that have been cast into Shadow and Darkness using the glue of Divinity in Spiritual Awakening to reIntegrate from the trauma of socialization & indoctrination into the Empire of Exploits as a Black, queer, non-binary biological female (bio.fem.)

Black and Brown Bodies as well as female Bodies have been historically preyed upon, enslaved, and forced into sexual depravity. This has manifested in my life through various sexual exploitations and assaults as well as various forms of abuse in all manners of relationships. My work seeks to expose that Truth while maintaining an air of beauty & loveliness as it denotes the Body, not the abuse that it is subjected to.

Rape is not a sexual act, but a power grab -- we are constantly having our power robbed of us within the demonic shadow empire. Inspired by the mystical art of such sacred collagists as Danielle Noel and the artists at Mystic Mamma, this work seeks to reclaim the Black female Body as a vessel for infinite Divinity, declaring sovereignty over this Form. I used pages from my Book of Shadows, photos from my archives, new photos, abstract drips and cardstock that are a common theme throughout my creations to make this timeline of identity. In this way, I am repossessing my Life and existence from those who would seek to manipulate it for their own gains. As a Godbody, I believe this an absolute necessity in order to Exist fully in one’s Power. 

GODDESS II was on sale at haul gallery during the group exhibition TEXTS; it is available for digital download in the Viciouss Pro shop