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CHANTALMENARD ***BONE*AMIE***

CHANTALMENARD.COM & BONEAMIETILDEATH.COM

About Me



"GOOD FRIEND FOR LIFE, BONE AMIE TIL DEATH"

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"Bone Amie" New Painting by Sean Cheetham.

www.chantalmenard.com

......"GOOD FRIEND FOR LIFE, BONE AMIE TIL DEATH"........
www.boneamietildeath.com

I love life, art, music, travelling, laughing til I hurt, finding and working with discarded goods. Other than air and water, ASSEMBLAGE*BONE AMIE*PLAYING PIANO* are the forces that keep me alive... I love hands, mirrors, lace, mixing my mediums, playing piano, sitting for portraits, drinking sake and faraway journeys.Founder/creator of BONE AMIE Bijoux et Couture. One of a kind designs assembled from bones and various refuse. VISIT BONE AMIE! Also, check out my music project THE CREPE HANGERS.

"RedAmor" Memento Box.

"He Loves Me Not.
I edited my profile with Thomas’ Myspace Editor V3.6 !

My Interests

RELICS. ALTARS. SACRIFICE.

***HAITIAN LULLABY***


***DAVY JONES***



"Davy Jones" for "Hand Made volume 2". April 22. 2006

RedDeath Masque and Widow's Heart both made by me
TORSO I MADE FOR EXQUISITE CORPSE SHOW, SACTO

Rust and blood, Bowling with human heads, suicide doors, TATTOOS* BODY ADORNMENT
all that glitters, mysticism, the occult, Body Worlds, museums, gallery visits, vintage shit, dead shit, rock and roll, making shit. Collage/Assemblage por vida!

Addicted to cinnamon, Chai. Buddhism, Dalai Lama, Green Tea, Sashimi, Sake, PotSticker Salad. Playing piano. Photography. I love the color Teal. I love being in love.
Twist ties, Neck Ties, gentlemen, rogues, sailors, mermaids, golden fleece, mytholigical heroes, vikings, VALHALLA, bullies, underdogs, bullfights, hot sauce, appreciation, respect, Dining with the lost, lonely and widowed, quick sketches while no one else sees, a praying mantis named GHANDI, CYCLOPS. Cryogenics, Crying in my hot water, Cosmic Intelligence. The spark when they meet. Haber Mensch, Homemade Scarves, Hiding in tight spaces, climbing flights of stairs, getting caught in elevators, backwards on the escalator, exorcisms, posessions, Ouija boards.
Swans, strangers, silk, suffocation, open sun roofs at night, guessing games, cheap parlour tricks, carne sideshows, smoke and mirrors, power tools, postcards, tourism, sight seeing, kissing in the snow.
Midnight Sledding in the Carpathians,Jet-lag, Awe and Wonderment, Discovering and naming Fangs, Rubbing Statues for good luck, Wishing I was in Your suitcase.

DRESS UP AND TEA PARTIES, MAUL RATS , Walking on broken glass without shoes, Salty Ocean air, Gelato in Winter, Gondola rides through the GrandCanal, Illuminated stained glass. Roadtrips, taxidermy, detritus, seashells, pedicures, makeup, "Disco Naps," tanzen tot, taking hits on my skateboard. Picture frames, eye glasses, facial hair, Baguas, polygons, old cars, rowdy humor. Men in uniform, Airplanes, Geishas, Kamikaze, spider webs, snakes and serpent-like creatures, milagros, postage stamps, old coins, dusty relics, caring for MIA soldiers and their kin,powder-free gloves, medical equipment, shoe fetish, plaid skirts, euro-trash adventures, FLOWERS , love letters, daydreaming, dichotmy, paradoxes, entendres and word play, breathing through lace, drinking water, hiking in canyons, buildling portals, rising from ashes, kissing Llorona's children, earwigs,my rabbit, Riley Love Bone, RIP. BoneAmie and all things Bone Amie!
www.boneamietildeath.com !!!! www.chantalmenard.com !!!

***PORTRAITS CAST IN OIL***

New portrait by Sean Cheetham

by SeanCheetham

"Portrait of Chantal Menard by SeanCheetham, visit NationalPortaitGallery, UK

I'd like to meet:



Music:


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I Play piano in THE CREPEHANGERS....ADD THE CREPE HANGERS

Patsy Cline, Billy Holiday, Etta James, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash. Chopin, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Bartok,The Cramps, Cure, Sex Pistols,The Clash, The Damned, Devo, Joy Division, The Pixies, New Order, OMD, SoftCell, Prince, Siouxsie, TheThe, Bauhaus, Bronski Beat, Kraftwerk, Ministry, the Beatles, Hendrix, Rolling Stones, Soda and His Million Piece Band, Super Tramp, Moody Blues, Late Night Baroque Crooners Club, Santo and Johnny, The Undisputed Truth, Fleetwood Mac,Bobby Vinton, DelToro, Lightening Swords of Death, Gangsta Rap-especially when they rap from a prison phone...Eclectic, Open-Minded Ears......

Movies:

The Last Emperor, Amadeus, Valmont, Belle DuJour, Birds, Big Fish, Amelie, Hero, Crouching Tiger, Empire of the Sun, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Reversal of Fortune (and movies starring Jeremy Irons), Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Goonies, Gozu,The Jerk. Goodsword fighting scenes-especially in bamboo, blood, guts and gore as well as arthouse flicks, period pieces, and a good tear-jerker.

Television:


Books:

Bradbury, Bukowski, Bataille, Vitale, Nabokov.

Heroes:

Opa en Oma...Prima...Fratello, Sorella

My Blog

***American Art Collector***

The May 2008 issue of American Art Collector magazine has an article titled "The beauty of the female form." There is a feature on Sean Cheetham's painting "Bone Amie." Go to your local book store or ...
Posted by CHANTALMENARD ***BONE*AMIE*** on Mon, 26 May 2008 10:21:00 PST

***UPDATED FOOTAGE FROM Natalia Fabia's Hooker Pageant***

UPDATE: HERE'S JACK'S VIDEO OF ME PLAYING THE WURLEY AT THE DRAGONFLY. DRUNKY TONKY KOOKYFUN. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzxS7B9XRDM THIS IS THE FOOTAGE FROM THE HOOKER PAGEANT....
Posted by CHANTALMENARD ***BONE*AMIE*** on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:40:00 PST

***UPDATED FOOTAGE FROM THE MISS HOOKER 2008 BEAUTY PAGEANT***

WATCH FOOTAGE OF THE MISS HOOKER 2008 PAGEANT! FULL OF TITILIOUS TALENT AND BEAUTY GALORE! on boingboing.netGO TO http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/10/bbtv-miss-hooker-200.ht ml MISS HOOKER 2...
Posted by CHANTALMENARD ***BONE*AMIE*** on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:24:00 PST

STRANGE FINDINGS*FAVORITE THINGS

HENRY PU YI....3.30.2008HERE’S A CLIP FROM ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES, THE LAST EMPEROR. BRILLIANT, BEAUTIFUL, BREATHTAKING. ESSENTIAL ELECTRICK STYLE MARCH 10, 2008GO RENT, BUY, WATCH ...
Posted by CHANTALMENARD ***BONE*AMIE*** on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:47:00 PST

PORTRAIT EXHIBIT

For those of you who have a love for portraiture, there is still time to see this exhibit.Follow the link below. xo-Chantal Menardhttp://www.lbma.org/exhibits.html
Posted by CHANTALMENARD ***BONE*AMIE*** on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:42:00 PST

***UNDER THE GUN @ CANVAS LA*2-21-2008***

In the upcoming group show "Under The Gun", featuring artwork inspired by firearmsI will be showing a new piece called "Red Rider" alongside over 30 of today's top tattoo artists.OPENING NIGHT: Thursd...
Posted by CHANTALMENARD ***BONE*AMIE*** on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:18:00 PST

She Walks

I've been looking for actual footage of Frida Kahlo for years. Now, I've finally got a taste... breathing, painting, walking.... Grazie. xo-CM ...
Posted by CHANTALMENARD ***BONE*AMIE*** on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:42:00 PST

***THE CREPE HANGERS=NEW SONGS ARE UP***

We just added some music to The Crepe Hangers page. Check out the link below and add them to your friends.Evermore...Chantal MenardTHE CREPE HANGERS...
Posted by CHANTALMENARD ***BONE*AMIE*** on Tue, 29 May 2007 01:56:00 PST

GOOD-BYE RILEY

She passed away yesterday and I feel it in the deepest tissue of my bones and muscles. She was part of my world. my family. I went out to her hutch this morning to feed her, and realized she wasnt the...
Posted by CHANTALMENARD ***BONE*AMIE*** on Thu, 24 May 2007 05:48:00 PST

***NEW ASSEMBLAGES-PAR AVION & STRANGE FRUIT***

Here's some pieces I finished recently. I was finally able to take a few moments to post these."PAR AVION"Commission for Nicole Frank. 2007 "Strange Fruit"Southern trees bear strange fruit,Blood on th...
Posted by CHANTALMENARD ***BONE*AMIE*** on Thu, 10 May 2007 08:07:00 PST