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“lots o f finger puppets and dolls o f great
things and philosophers,” she explains.
Picard, who also runs Nailed By Ally, a nail
art design company, traces the roots o f Blood­
hound Photography to her time in New York.
“During the last three years o f it, I started
taking photography more seriously,” she re­
calls. “I started with a digital point-andshoot.
I’ve always been artistically active.”
In 2007, Picard invested in a digital single­
lens reflex camera (DSLR) and began taking
classes at The New School. She considers
herself completely self-taught and is fully a
child of the digital age. “I’ve never worked in
film,” she admits.
Picard helped organize a queer dance night
in Brooklyn called Pantyhos. In addition to
deejaying at the party, she realized there was
a need for photos. Picard says it was “me and
the camera with a flash” in the corner of a bar.
And so Bloodhound Photography was born.
She moved to Portland two years ago so
that her partner could be closer to family. The
culmination o f Picard’s efforts has led to
MRS., what she describes as “a themed queer
dance night that involves lots o f community
and audience participation.”
Bloodhound Photography— and Picard’s
future— may not be destined to stay in
Stumptown.
“My plan is to tour it to different commu­
nities,” Picard says of her intent to take
Bloodhound Photography on the road, across
the United States, with the goal o f making a
book. She also wants to apply for a master s at
the International Center for Photography
and possibly move back to New York.
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Miss Mylar drags it out
for worthy causes
Your typical drag queen will parade into
the room decked out in an outrageous gown,
hair stacked two feet high and with enough
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“What I hope to accomplish is
to let people know it’s okay to
let your freak flag fly. In drag, we
have a unique opportunity to be
figureheads for folks."
— J O S E P H S U L L IV A N , A K A M I S S M Y L A R
makeup on to make a M A C salesgirl
climax.
Not Miss Mylar. She expresses herself
with more “high-concept” ideas. A t Cascade
AIDS Project’s annual art auction this April,
for example, she donned a simpler gown, a
bald head and a pillbox hat adorned with
butterflies.
“It was a tribute to the royal wedding, if
you will,” Mylar says. (Kate M iddleton has a
thing for hats.)
Miss Mylar, aka Joseph Sullivan, isn’t much
o f a RuPaul. She’s not even a Miss Coco Peru.
If she were anything, it would be a hybrid of
Lady Gaga and Boy George. Maybe. That’s
probably too small of a (pill)box.
“I really never had any preconceived no­
tions about what drag could be or what it
was supposed to be,” Sullivan says. “But I’ve
never been a ballad sort o f gal.”
Growing up, Sullivan went to school in
Spokane, Wash. The gay community there
was small, so he found acceptance in the
theater community. The theater, among the
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