my practice has multiple personality disorder

today is all headless dolls and glitter...



fixed stars
22" x 30"
mixed media on paper
angela simione, 2010


the little dots all around their feet are orbs of gold and black glitter on a velvet ground of black gouache. their shoes are bright, sparkling silver.

shining things are hard to photograph.

i'm thinking of sylvia plath and wanting to read The Bell Jar. again. :)

the title comes from her poem "Words".

poem to fit the day...

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GHOSTS



Some ghosts are women,
neither abstract nor pale,
their breasts as limp as killed fish.
Not witches, but ghosts
who come, moving their useless arms
like forsaken servants.

Not all ghosts are women,
I have seen others;
fat, white-bellied men,
wearing their genitals like old rags.
Not devils, but ghosts.
This one thumps barefoot, lurching
above my bed.

But that isn't all.
Some ghosts are children.
Not angels, but ghosts;
curling like pink teacups
on any pillow, or kicking,
showing their innocent bottoms, wailing
for Lucifer.




-Anne Sexton

yesterday....

ghosts and grey dresses,
apparitions, the cold breeze...





hint (1 and 2)
10" x 22"
mixed media on paper
angela simione, 2010

2 things

1. i've been getting so many sweet emails about that print! yay!!!! no fear, we will do it again soon. the more i think about it and what it means and how i'd like the piece to function in the world, i've come to the conclusion that it should always be free. and i mean, completely free: postage paid by me. that being said, whenever i've got cash to burn i will offer it up for consumption. print as needed as i am able.

and to all of you who responded so enthusiastically on round 1, your packages have been shipped! thank you so much!!!

2. thinking of seances and acts of mourning... witnesses, ghosts, memory... collecting the fragments... evidence, ritual, rite.


untitled
40" x 26
gouache on paper
angela simione, 2010