About the artist

I'm Triage, but you also can call me Kian or Eddie, I'm not picky. I'm an artist of many mediums living on stolen Anishinaabe Algonquin land. I'm an anthro enthusiast, a bat with a sparkle-fursona, a lover and a biter.

Convention history: Ottawa Comiccon '14, Ottawa Winter Comiccon '24, CanFURence '23 / '24 / '25 / '26, Furnal Equinox '25

🎨 I make things

I've been teaching myself how to illustrate since I was able to pick up a pencil, and how to build costumes since around 2009. My main focus is on digital paintings of anthropomorphic animal characters, and I love working with eye-catching colour palettes and rendering my pieces in a painterly style. I also dabble in a few other creative endeavours, such as toy customization, crochet, 3D modeling, and other crafts.

Fursuit making is another big passion of mine, and something I hope to turn into a business venture in the future. I'm in the midst of making my own work space for creating fursuits, and hope to invest in equipment that will allow me to build pieces of wearable art that are optimal for performance arts and built to last.

Coding is another endeavour of mine that I've become very passionate about in the past few years. I'm still a huge novice at it, but I'm constantly learning new things about it, and honestly wouldn't have expected myself to be where I currently am with it even just 2 years ago. Right now my focus is on HTML/CSS, but I have plans to dip my toes into Javascript and Python coding in the future.

🌈 I'm queer

My queer identity is something that's rather important to me! I currently find myself identifying as a gay man, with my attractions being towards other men (including nonbinary people.) I also identify as being an androgyne man, which is a shorthand for saying "I am a binary male whose gender identity and expression includes both masculine and feminine traits."

I've been in a very loving relationship with my partner since October 24th, 2019!

♿ I'm disabled

I'm multiply disabled with autoimmune, connective tissue and neurological diseases, and experience nerve pain/damage. I am also developmentally disabled with Autism and several psychological conditions.

Being disabled is a large part of my identity, and I'm very into the cripplepunk movement and Mad Pride as a result. I also hope to become more involved in disability rights activism in the future, as well as educating the general public and newly-disabled people about disability and the endless amount of presentations and experiences one can have with disability.

I use a variety of aids in my daily life to help me function a little better, including (but not limited to) a rollator walker, a mobility scooter, and high and low-tech AAC.

🐾 I'm a furry

I've been calling myself a furry since around 2008, but I've seen myself in animals, anthropomorphic and otherwise, for as long as I can remember. Thanks to the Warrior Cats community on YouTube, I discovered what a 'fursona' was, and by extension learned about the existence of furry fandom. It's safe to say that the trajectory of my life changed since then, with me having carved a place for myself in the community and made many friends within the fandom that I call home.

My current main fursona is Hyson the vampire bat. I created him back in late 2019, and he's evolved with me ever since. He's a vampiric fairy who lives with his life partner, Mez the highland cow, in a modest apartment somewhere in eastern Ontario and keeps himself busy with his various hobbies and passions.

My secondary fursona is Kardia the serval. Created sometime in mid 2024, Kardia is an angel-demon surgeon working in his own hospital, who partakes in many morally questionable surgeries.

I do have a few other fursonas as well, but mentioning all of them here would take forever. Feel free to check out my Toyhouse folder to see all of the other characters I represent myself with.

🍉 I'm a leftist

I have only just recently started to scratch the surface in understanding leftist ideology, but I've found myself believing in a lot of leftist schools of thought. I still have lots of studying to do on the subject, but I try my best to make sure that my actions are not only rooted in compassion and care for my fellow comrades, but also grounded with theory.

A few of the things I believe in include:

• Prison/police abolition and rehabilitative justice.
• Black Lives Matter and Black liberation.
• Land Back and decolonisation.
• Freedom and liberation for Palestine, Sudan, the DRC, Artsahk, Yemen, Kashmir, and all other oppressed groups undergoing persecution and genocide.
• LGBT rights, including the protection of trans youth.
• Harm reduction and total drug decriminalisation.
• Anti-psychiatry.
• Anti-fascism, anti-white supremacy, and anti-Nazism.

🧩 My interests

Outside of art, I'm very enthusiastic about plushies & toy collecting, amusements & theme parks, photography, horror media, cooking & baking, coding & web development, technology & computer science, kandi & jewellery making, trains & planes, and much more. Future ventures I'm interested in partaking in include video editing, programming, and disability activism.

I don't know how to many any myself, but I'm also a huge lover of listening to music! Some of my favourite genres include electronic, space and alternative rock, alternative metal, industrial, gabber, DnB and jungle, hip hop and rap, break and raggacore, IDM, and anything that's experimental and eclectic.

🏥 Why Triage?

I came up with the name Triage due to wanting to associate my art alias and branding with medical sciences and imagery. As someone who is both disabled and a medical trauma survivor, I like to think of this as being my attempt at reclaiming medical themes as a source of empowerment and comfort. Admittedly, it's a bit hard to explain how I find comfort in things like medical science and hospitals to people who haven't experienced this kind of trauma, but I find those who have just get it immediately.

(Also, for the record, Tri4ge is still pronounced as "Triage," not "Try-fourge,")

Influences: 2D & 3D animation, toys and plushies, music, early internet culture and "amateur" artwork, medical themes and biomedicine, horror and Halloween, Valentine's day, childhood nostalgia, biology/physics, theme/amusement parks and rides, roleplay and world-building, Kawaii culture, fashion, vintage furry culture, children's media, surrealism/psychedelia, my own experiences living with disabilities

FurryCode by CaptainPackRat