Visual Arts Fashion Design Costuming Jewelry Making. All forms of handwork embellishment, including lacework. I specialize in pen and ink illustration I thrive on the minutia. Spiritual Pursuits: Eastern Meditation an affinity for Italian Tarocchi, new and antique repro., I Ching, Western Astrology and Numerology. Pastimes: Living and sharing both the finer and more uncomplicated pleasures of life. Collecting vintage and modest antiques. Horticulture. Baking to share any though chocolate confections are my specialty. Throwing intimate dinner parties for friends. Unwinding at independent coffee-houses, have an 18th century taste for hot chocolate instead of coffee. Enjoy High Tea. Night-time hiking to hot springs, made better by moonlight. I adore ALL creatures. Frequently attend art shows, nightclubs and all sorts of events that offer things of interest to see and an opportunity to get turned out. Have many friends in the BDSM community, though I don't participate. An avid movie watcher and voracious reader. I also enjoy target practice. Holding a general interest for most things archaic. I am wholly seduced by the beauty of the avant-garde aesthetic in life.
See a design you like or have one in mind ? I welcome you to contact me. I am here to make beautiful things and keep in touch with friends. I tend to add other working artists, and people I've met out, or know well. I'm a little shy, so please don't take it personally if I don't respond, or add you. ,
Gravitate toward melodic and harmonious music with a romantic quality. Moved by harpsichords including alternative music with them in the mix. Albinoni, Bach, Boccherini, Delibes, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Plaa, Rameau, Scarlatti and Vivaldi. Chamber music appeals greatly, as does Eastern Indian to Dead Can Dance . Most Ethereal, some Industrial and EBM, most Alternative 70's and 80's. Any David Sylvian, Smiths/Morrissey, Gary Numan, Human League, Marc Almond, Cocteau Twins, any Midge Ure, Depeche Mode, Bauhaus (any variation of), Siouxsie, Joy Division, The Cure, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Die Form, Sisters of Mercy, Legendary Pink Dots (combinations) of Skinny Puppy, Delirium, Collide, Clan of Xymox, VNV Nation, Assemblage 23, Wolfsheim, Covenant, Angels and Agony, Cruxshadows, Wumpscut and Helium Vola, are particular favorites on a long list. Appreciate other kinds of music, though I may not go out of my way to collect them. I only add bands I know personally.
Seen far too many to admit to and few too I haven't liked: Foreign Costume Dramas, Action-Adventure, Suspense,Thrillers, Kooky Comedy, Romantic-Horror, any Franco Zeffirelli, De Laurentiis family, or Hammer film, certain documentaries top my list, Some personal favs: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari c 1919, The Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney, Dollar, Hamlet, Arsenic and Old Lace, Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, The Seventh Seal, Suddenly Last Summer, The Crimson Pirate, Cries and Whispers, Fellini-Satyricon, The Abominable Dr. Phibes,The Shining, Nosferatu the Vampyr, Evil Under the Sun (an ultimate vacation movie), La Reine Margot, Dune, A Room with a View, Vamp, Dangerous Liasons, Valmont, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Age of Innocence, Boxing Helena, tu les Matins du Monde, City of Lost Children, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Prospero's Books, The Professional, Benny and Joon, Killing Zoe, The Restoration, Color of Night, The Scarlet Letter, Bullets Over Broadway, Dark City, The Pillow Book, Elizabeth, Dangerous Beauty, Shanghai Triad, SLC Punk, Stir of Echos, Mulholland Drive, Cube, Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary, The Man Who Cried, Octane, House of Flying Daggers, V is for Vendetta, Stranger Than Fiction, I could go on ...
My family read Poe and Dickens to me, hoping to instill a sense of obedience and gratefulness (in particular : Oliver Twist, The House of Usher, made their mark). I suppose it is no wonder I gravitate toward the things I do ...*laughs* Mainly all the Western European and American classics--very few Contemporary. Ancient Greek and Roman. Good biographies and travel essays. Costume, Fashion, Visual Art and Needlework resource books. With a special fondness for the children's book illustrators who inspired my love of illustration. A few books that have made an impact on me : (my great-grandmother's set of)The Andrew Lang Fairy books series-first release , Watership Down, Pride and Prejudice, The Hobbit, Le Mort d'Arthur, Canterbury Tales, Animal Farm, The Kabalah, Autobiography of a Yogi, The Divine Romance, The Bhagavad Gita, A Brief History of Time, The Scarlet Letter, Astoria, Delta of Venus, Atlas Shrugged, Edith Hamilton's Mythology, The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the influence of Max Reinhardt, Psychology of the Unconscious, Robinson Crusoe, The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories, The Vampire Lestat, The Witching Hour, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Fleurs du Mal, The Stones of Venice, Swann's Way,The Importance of Being Earnest, The Age of Innocence, and the Llewellyn Special Topics in Tarot Series.
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