about
ira rat works and lives in Ames, IA.
artist statement
My work explores the relationship between consumerist fetishism and the tyranny of ageing. With influences as diverse as Bozo the Clown and The Velvet Underground, new synergies are created from both mundane and transcendant meanings.
Ever since I was a pre-adolescent I have been fascinated by the traditional understanding of the moment. What starts out as hope soon becomes finessed into a dialectic of greed, leaving only a sense of unreality and the inevitability of a new understanding.
As shifting derivatives become clarified through studious and personal practice, the viewer is left with a tribute to the darkness of our future.
connect
email: eyerarat@gmail.com
social media: instagram – twitter
fiction
Pacifier
Participation Trophy
Learned Animals (Chapbook)
poetry
Juvenilia
the medication
non-fiction
Beginner’s Guide to Extreme Horror (w/ Jon Steffens)
art
i’m sorry mom
inspiration is theft (coming soon)
edited by Ira Rat
F•cked Up Stories 1
F•cked Up Stories 2
F•cked Up Stories 3
Teenage Grave
Little Birds
Isolation is Safety
dirt in the sky (coming soon)
Little Birds green (coming soon)
new meat in a cold room (coming soon)
anthology/zine appearances
Stories of the Eye
Rock’n’Roll Horror Zine Vol. 1
Sniffing Ants Zine Vol. 1
Deep Fried Horror (April, 2019)
online work
Philosophical Idiot
Misery Tourism
music
Solo
Neon Lushell
W/ Richard Shirk
Tape Ends
Vicar Elm