Camera Paintings: 2004
ME/"Erotic Angels" (March 2004)
Pictures from my first incarnation of the "Painted Angel." For more description see Making a Spectacle of Myself.
ME/"Painted Angel" (June 2004)
Photographer Matthew Scherfenberg , who was one of the artists featured in "Erotic Angels," was so taken by this look that he instigated a session in his studio. For this incarnation, the wings came off and the makeup became more elaborate; I also added hand-painted talons which enhanced that sense of elegant menace. (They were painfully tight to wear; between takes I had to pull them off to rest my fingers.)
BRENDA/"The Faerie Madonna" (June 2004)
Brenda asked me to paint her for a special ritual solo dance ritual that marked a powerful healing transition in her life. We were so pressed for time on the day of the event that instead of carefully patting on the base alabaster and lavender makeup I wound up virtually "finger-painting" it on before tracing the filigree lines in violet gold, assisted by her friend Shama. This turned out to accentuate the otherworldly quality of her makeup in the photographs: the one I call "The Faerie Madonna" is one of my favorite images I have ever taken... for me, it is supernal.
