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Sketchbook Marilyns
So I am working on just…sketching again….without pretension, without worry. At times, I get so caught up in trying to make the perfect piece, or my anxieties about my skills that I often become just..static. So I’ve started to keep a sketchbook again, and the crazy thing is, I am sketching..for fun. Anyway, it’s an [...]
Hitchcockian Marilyn in Real Life
Often when a celebrity or person unexpectedly passes before their time, we are loaded with speculation about what ‘could have been’. In the case of Marilyn Monroe, there are already lists upon lists of never realized Monroe vehicles. Amist the future projects conjecture, perhaps the cinematic quality of her everyday life becomes overlooked. I came [...]
Fabulous Celebrity Saint Candles on Etsy
These candles make me smile, as well as wish I had disposable income. Check it out: Celebrity Prayer Candles on Etsy
Musings of Truman Capote.
For ages I’ve been swayed to check out the writings of Truman Capote, but for ages I have been preoccupied to do so. Tonight I finally sat down with Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote and am already won over. I particularly liked this passage from “New York 1946″ Lunch today with M. [...]
Perfume of the Dead
“I did a little research on Elvis, and he actually had really bad body odor. So we don’t want to clone him in any way or create a fragrance that actually smelled like him,” she said. “DNA has nothing to do with bodily functions. There’s no way it can stink.”
#1 Photoshop Marilyn studies.
So as I am sure I’ve probably stated before, Marilyn Monroe is such a ridiculously hard image to work with. You get that with any cultural icon, because icon alone is such a loaded word. The entire subject its filled with layers and layers of meaning, opinions, facts, fiction, and associations. I can’t figure out [...]
Current work in progress. 12/7/09
In progress, still working at the MM studies. However, I am finding I need to switch it up from just working on Marilyn. It gets constricting and I get stuck. The biggest problem is dealing with my work space. It’s tight and not conducive to art making. So mostly I am restricted to studies to [...]
The Irony of Candid Marilyn Monroe
I’ve developed a fascination with candid photos of Marilyn Monroe. Despite the vast media saturation of her image, it’s very much of her created image rather than the person. (*although I do not intend to propose that the two are entirely separate.) Despite being one of the biggest icons of this past century, it’s the [...]
My College Artist's Statement. (2008)
I am still figuring my current body of work concerning MM, and this site is a great way to help verbalize and explore it. I thought I’d post my artist’s statement that served as the catalyst for my now intense Marilyn interest. “Growing up, I used celebrity as an escape from dealing with the loss [...]