Come experience the worlds of Dyllie Dally with artist and performer Dylan Seidel!

“I am a printmaker, sculptor, and drag queen who blends these mediums to bring the kitschy, glamorous, colorful, and campy world of Dyllie Dally to life. My work often rejects the exclusionary determination of high art and instead creates detailed and developed curations of inspiration from what is trite, low-brow, DIY, and everyday. These pieces have been a way of creating a visual language for the future by taking influence from trends of futurism that became popularized in post-WW2 America when the visual culture was interestingly interested in bringing the future to the present: A seemingly bizarre desire in the 21st century. When looking at my costumes and soft sculptures, viewers are bound to find something that feels familiar to them whether it’s the childhood colorfulness, or an image that strikes a childhood memory that you may have forgotten. These costumes are rid of their materialism: they are not worn to be productive. They rid practicality in exchange for a visual spectacle. My work is made mostly out of found and repurposed materials.

Each costume carries a memory of the drag performances I have worn them for. As they lay before you today, you are witnessing them incomplete. I like to think of Dyllie Dally is the puppet (the look), the puppet maker (the artist who put the look together) and the puppeteer (the body that moves and creates the performance).Without my body (which carries my drag character) these costumes are just visual tokens of who Dyllie Dally is. When I wear them at my drag shows, surrounded by my queer community they become my skin, my freedom to express myself, and the part of me that has brought me together with so many incredible individuals I have met in my time in the Santa Cruz and South bay Drag scene.”

Dylan Seidel, 2025