Some Truths, Big and Small

Diet Popstitute

remembering Diet Popstitute. last time i saw his sweet face was in London @ smutfest watching danielle hell willis and jennifer blowdryer. gave me many happy souvenirs...









Our new orleans neighborhood area post storm...


Lucian Freud

MOVE STILL....

I ENJOY GETTING A GLIMPSE INTO THE ( SEEMINGLY) MOVING AND SOMETIMES AGING FACES OF YORE.....

It's a post punky party

Damn things gone wild....

I often hear this song while walking down the street.








Reliquaries & Forged Steel Bust of Egon Schiele by Al Farrow

Today, I remember and likey this and that...

Come Sail your ships around me......

THE HOSTESS w/ Jessi


A friend of mine ( jim, hi) introduced Jessi and I.....she is so lovely and an illustrator at large,

Love her.

She's such a good silent film actress...

For this I also have the sweet bon bon sugar plum dress maker Pricilla Dawn provide the wardrobe. XX!!



I used my gran's old silver tea set here, and to answer the age old question, yes, cupcakes ARE heavy when stacked!

Since the dress is so sweet I had to toss in a bit-o-creep. I created a plumtastic and Fuschia dog patch eye for the make up - a bramble of red locks and a bread braid crown.

Later, we went onto a vista and Jessi danced around freaking out the squares with my pink ship while i lazed in the street...so much blue sky ! The day was a real pleasure...

To see images, look in candids and ( obviously) in photos for the ''hostess'' series within my site below.


http://www.darlateagarden.com/

As always

Best to you,

darla
* no objects are electronically added*

Ana Juan

Speaking of illustrators ..... I adore Ana!

First found her through the children's book, Frida, a life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo with text by Jonah Winter. I even have her frida illustration tattooed on my inner arm with a banner reading..what else...." once upon a time". So, clearly her visions have a hold on me.

Her work has been featured all over the world notably including, the New Yorker. Her style, Naïve... bold, yet soft, has that slightly dark fairytale narrative...just lovely.

She ventures into dolls, wood, paper..well, you can look for yourself at her adorable site here


Although I appreciate the beauty of dolls and the work that goes into them, I'm not a collector...yet I wouldn't mind at all to own Ana's Snow white...it's not a typical disney influenced snow white you see so often...it's digital print on cotton with removable clothes ..limited to 30. i love it! e-mail me at darlatea@gmail.com if you want to ship her to me ;0) Only 300.00 !
A steal ! ( i love that it's in grey tones).. The doll is based on the book "snow white" ( delightfully Gorey-ish) for which she provided illustration.






Anyway, Ana resides in Madrid Spain and has agreed to allow me to take her portrait if I make it out there next year!

Now..where did my suitcase go?.....right... humming by the door, always.