Friday, September 6, 2024

“Undertow Joan A.K.A. Lucille LeSurf”

A mixed-media analog collage over and incorporating a vintage seascape and sunset doctored with acrylic paint, magazine pages (Ms. Crawford from a featured spread in a 90-odd year-old LIFE, while the airborne playing cards were from a recent issue of People) on 9 in. x 12 in. mounted canvas with marbled grey tone washi tape siding and Mod Podge sealant.  Title explanation:  Lucille LeSueur was the subject model Joan Crawford’s birth name.

On reverse of the canvas, a Will Shakespeare passage from the ad that provided the waves...
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“Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown: 
What dreadful noise of #waters in mine ears!
What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!
Methought I saw a thousand fearful wracks…” 

Clarence (describing “ghastly dreams”) in Act I, Scene 4
Shakespeare’s THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RICHARD III

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