"Art can question, educate, repulse, depress, anger, refresh, enlighten and uplift. It is a union of body, mind, nature and spirit. My work is not political analytical or intellect!ual. It is a purity of colour and flow"
Helen Steele
www.helensteele.com
Photograph by Baron Adolph de Meyer
"I played the grave-digger in 'Hamlet,' first, at the age of seven. They gave me the chance to play Shakespeare because nobody else of the tender age of seven would do so. They wouldn't say the rather amazing words...the other kiddies. I took it all quite seriously and said ALL the words without a quiver. Once I had begun I could not be stopped. I was ill when I was not on the stage. It seemed to me I couldn't breathe in any other atmosphere."
"I'm the greatest actress in the world and the greatest failure.
And nobody gives a damn."
Jeane Eagels
Via Art Tattler
My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.
Louise Bourgeois
December 25, 1911 – May 31, 2010
Isadora Duncan's half-naked, nymph-like movements changed the nature of ballet - and anticipated modern choreography.
Remembering Isadora Duncan in The Gaurdian by Judith Mackrell
I'm not sure how one thing leads to another. I've wanted to do a post about admired women, past and present who cross dress in style.
I wrote a title for the post and saved it in my drafts in November. Since then I have debated on how to do these women justice on this blog. I prefer impulse writing and was starting to get paranoid that I was elaborating on it too much.
The events of the last couple of days have lead to this.......
Last week my wonderful friends at Hennessy sent me an invitation to their Literary Awards on the 20th.
That same day I ran into a cafe on the second floor of a children's department store, and came across an identical pair of shoes which I had bought in the same place two or three years earlier and was wearing, even though they were falling apart
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Posting on Twitter and Facebook my delight about finding the 'little lads' shoes, I was subjected to public inquisition and 'teasing' about my taste in boys attire.
Considering I'm 5ft and barely a size 3, choice of shoes, in Ireland is quite limited...and yes.... I admit to the universe... I love men's clothes and the written word....!
So if that makes me a 'BlueStocking' cross dresser ...so be it. ; )
And in true bluestocking style,
POB by POB, styling by Mark and yours truly.
I will be sharing over the next few days some of the shortlisted's work.
Via Iconicphotos
Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly
Backstage at the 28th Annual Academy Awards
March 21, 1956
Diana Vreeland by Deborah Turbeville
'The only real elegance is in the mind;
if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.'
Marchesa Luisa Casati
'But her alchemy was much more complex, producing many other marvels. By what fire did she transmute the substance of her life into beauties of such moving power?
She demonstrated how true it is that all enchantment is a madness induced with art.
But what was the real essence of this creature?
Was she aware of her continuous metamorphosis, or was she impenetrable to herself, excluded from her own mystery?'
Gabriele D'Annunzio
If there is anyone in the realm of contemporary acting that intrigues and inspires me it would be Tilda Swinton.
I can't wait to be in her presence this Sunday
Will be back on Monday, have a lovely weekend.
Today I received an email asking for a few 'gunnas'* for the next red carpet event. As if I didn't have any lovely pieces I could easily send today. I have decided to embark myself in a 38 hour frenzy ,making a few pieces I think would be much nicer for the wonderful candidate.
There is nothing better than an impossible deadline to get one's life back in track...specially after a week or so living in limbo....
In anticipation of a couple of sleepless nights and overdosing in chocolate and coffee...I wish you all a wonderful weekend !
*gunnas snatched from the POB dictionary
'I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others.
Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything.
Do not fear the difficulties: I've had many in the past and I crossed without fear, with total indifference for myself'
Rita Levi Monalcini
'Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can`t send away for it in a catalogue. And I`m afraid it`s becoming obsolete. '
Rosalind Russell
"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes"
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Julia Margaret Cameron by George Frederic Watts
'My Aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.'
Julia Margaret Cameron to Sir John Herschel, 31 December, 1864
Thank you Jane from ill seen, ill said for posting my pictures
Thank you Fab Miss B for introducing me to Margaret Cameron
Photograph originally posted by foam
