Crash Margulies Art & Photography

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Crash Margulies Art & Photography

Artist, photographer, and all-around DIY punk. I specialize in concerts and events but am up for nearly anything.

I've been photographing since 2008 and enjoy everything from parties to concerts to senior photos or individual shoots. If you're in the Twin Cities metro area and are in need of a photographer, feel free to be in touch, and we can negotiate setting and price!

07/18/2026

I'm still collecting photos from loved ones and processing my favorites, but I love my wedding mask jewelry so much that I needed to post it! I made custom mask chains + length extenders for the whole wedding family!

I think I also made set that was meant as a bingo prize but never made it to anyone - perhaps I'll try to turn that into mutual aid somehow!

My wedding was almost entirely nucleic acid amplification (NAAT) tested for COVID and guests wore respirators when not eating or drinking, because airborne hazards don't stop for celebrations.

As my wife Dawn Diaz and I discuss how to wash smoke out of some remaining wedding decor in the yard, this is relevant all over again

(Image description: Crash, a white nonbinary person, takes a selfie while lying down. They are wearing glasses and a white Flo brand elastomeric mask with a multicolored beaded decoration across the front. Their hand-dyed wedding dress is visible at the edges of the frame. End ID.)

07/09/2026

Long COVID means my BFF can't be my Best Person at my wedding. Instead, they're slowly folding cranes to wish for a cure.

I miss my best friend.

Wear a mask so you're not too sick to celebrate

Paper cranes with NIBF

Crash's best friend NIBF (e- em - ems) has severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E.) which makes em home-bound and unable to attend in person.

NIBF and Crash did origami together as kids and NIBF is also folding one thousand paper cranes of ems own.

Cranes you don't take home will go to brighten up NIBF's space and be a physical connection to the wedding!

One Thousand Paper Cranes

from Wikipedia

The folding of one thousand origami cranes ( senbazuru; literally "one thousand cranes") is a Japanese tradition of expressing hopes and wishes derived from ancient folklore.

In Japan, the crane is considered mystical or holy, and historically, paper cranes were offered to shrines and temples by those who sought blessings. The advent of origami allowed the tradition to spread beyond votive offerings to become a broader phenomenon, which grew into the creation of one-thousand origami cranes-one for each year the animal was said to have lived.

In the modern era, the tradition was revived and subsequently popularized by Sadako Sasaki, a child survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima who attempted the senbazuru before dying of leukemia.

(Image descriptions: above text is overlaid on a photo of fancy jewelry laid out on a table)

07/04/2026

Need for NAAT tests met - we did a more expansive family system inventory and have all the tests we need. Thank you for sharing around! For my friends who tossed some means our way, know those are going to restocking household mask variety for guests instead! Thank you so much!!!!

(Image description; digital graphic. Bright orange text over a previous indigo-and-white flier seeking NAAT tests for a wedding. Newest text reads: need met! We have enough tests within our family system. Emoji of praying hands. End image description.)

🏳️‍🌈💙😷🤟🏻

06/26/2026

Tired thoughts about my family and activist allies being excluded from Pride events in order to keep themselves and me and their friends and clients and other community members safe.

Disabled people should be able to attend an event and rest, recreate, connect, and exist without continuously having to create that space for ourselves (& then often being pushed out of it and having to start over again and again.)

Text transcription (sorry no detailed images, all are household cats lounging around the house)

1. "No cops or cops at Pride!" ...but no inconviently disabled people either, apparently. Masks Required (with verbs) or you're not that revolutionary

2. "Love wins!" ...except when someone loves a Disabled q***r, apparently. Masks required (as a verb) or you're not that revolutionary

3. Take Pride back!... But don't give it to Disabled q***rs, apparently they're asking for too much. Masks required (as an active verb) or you're not that revolutionary

4. All are welcome! ...except people with weak or compromised immune systems apparently. Weird because that includes people who are HIV+. Masks required (as a verb!!!!) or you're not that revolutionary.

5. every q***r person - including every disabled q***r person - should be able to access community and resources at a "community" gathering. Masks required is a verb. Otherwise what does your community look like?

6. ALL disabled q***r people deserve safety. Requiring masks actively is the only way to prevent some of us from becoming severely or fatally ill at your event.

7.
Condoms protect against a severe, life- altering and life-threatening disease that we can accidentally give to one another So do masks. Requiring them should be just like requiring condoms at group events.

8. Q***r people can be disabled and disabled people can be Q***r. Excluding us is just copying the system that has so far excluded you. If you are not intersectional, you are not done.

06/24/2026

The family member who usually finds our nucleic acid amplification tests has recently had an unexpected major surgery as well as unexpected vet bills! Can you help us keep our loved ones safe at our wedding?

***r

(Text transcription: Help a disabled sapphic wedding afford to be virally safe!

Crash & Dawn are having a small, virally-avoidant handfasting at home.

Crash is a q***r-trans, disabled, homebound respirator & anti-C°vid activist with ME/CFS and Long C0v!d.

Dawn is trans feminine person of color and a full time caregiver for disabled q***r people in Mni Sota Makoce (Minnesota) in the metro area.

Mikki (Dawn's other spouse) is a q***r woman working in the local school foods system.

Tests are for all wedding attendees (12-15 people, we will be pool testing) and will be one of several anti-viral measures in place.

vmo

Ppal [email protected]
End transcript.)

05/12/2026

Today (May 12) is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Awareness Day. 💙

If you love someone with M.E., the best things you can do for them are:

Believe them - even doctors often don't

Prevent the spread of disease (including wearing a mask!)

Complete care tasks for them in their home or life

Buy things for them or give them money to help with living expenses

Help them obtain accessibility / adaptable gear

Keep your connection alive, even if it feels one-sided

Stay educated about M.E. & other post-viral illnesses, and educate others!

05/05/2026

It's awareness month, so I am here to make you aware! My M.E. is moderate to severe. It is affected by other conditions, like my hypermobility spectrum disorder, that already cause fatigue. It's why I'm mostly housebound (I get out about twice a month) and mostly bedbound (I sit up only in my wheelchair these days, for limited periods.)

A set of digital slides. White and blue text over a photograph of white clouds on a bright blue sky. The author's name, Crash Margulies, is across the top of each one. A full image description is in nested comments & embedded with Instagram.

04/07/2026

Some folks have been following along with this skirt mending so I've decided to post it here! I hope to have the energy to properly wear and photograph it worn sometime soon, but here are some close-ups of the darning I've done!

I'm still seeking information on what this fabric might be (super lightweight, translucent in light, burn test confirms cotton/linen) since the skirt itself has no tags and I'd love to recreate it in every color ever.

What sort of have you been meaning to get to? Do you have a favorite wardrobe piece you've been wearing for years?

IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS

Photo of bright orange, red, magenta, purple, and navy blue fabric held up in front of a light source. The fabric is translucent and very vibrant. Text reads, Visible mending on a favorite wardrobe piece / because preserving materials and memories is important in an age of consumption
....

Photo of bright orange, red, magenta, purple, and navy blue fabric held up on a wooden embroidery hoop. The arm holding the project up is white and visibly tattooed.

Text reads, This skirt was my father's mother's. She probably bought it somewhere in New York City before she retired, but I have no other information about it! No tags, no brand, no sizing.

It's one of my favorite wardrobe pieces but it's showing its age (~40yrs) and my use, so I finally sat down to repair it
.....

Vibrant scarlet fabric with purple accents laid across a white person's hand. It is mended with like-color thread in a woven pattern.

Text reads,
I used cotton embroidery thread that a friend gave me. I didn't always have an exact color match, so I mixed and matched strands from multiple skeins.

(Continued in comments)

03/24/2026

Some goals for this spring. These all depend heavily on my ability/health, but if I treat myself with kindness and adapt these things to my stamina and remember not to be a perfectionist, I should be able to do some!

IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS:

1) Goals for spring / a photo from the archive of dewdrops on a leaf

2) Scrapbook / junk & art journal more. A ballpoint pen drawing of a leafless tree at twilight, roots visible

3) read more. A photo of an e-reader with a lock screen of a skull and crossbones book

4) Write more. A handheld keyboard in front of a white person's hand over a teal and green quilt

5) mend and sew more. A bleach dyed T-shirt being mended with embroidery thread, mostly in trans flag colors

6) take more photos (even from bed). A black and white cat with green eyes rests in a sunny window.

7) enjoy times with loved ones (including pets). An orange cat is circled up asleep in dim lighting.

03/16/2026

Wear a mask! 😷

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IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS: three slides in long COVID teal.

Yesterday (March 15) was Long COVID awareness day and I was too busy taking 3 different rescue meds, sh***ing myself, vomiting, and then sleeping 14 hours to recover due to symptoms caused by my LC to post about it.

It's embarrassing to be this sick. It's more embarrassing that people are spreading disease that makes people this sick and you don't seem to care!

The only way to avoid long term effects of COVID like these are to avoid catching COVID. Wear a KF94, KN95, N95, or P100 mask without an exhalation valve. Use MERV13 or HEPA filters to clean the air. Once the infrastructure to clean the air is in place EVERYWHERE, masks may be less necessary.

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