Thursday 29 May 2008

The girl with blue hair

I must be losing my touch, thought the girl with blue hair. People would usually stop and stare at her unabashedly, eyes widening mouths agape. Some would also point, in a slow-motion distracted manner, the possibility that they might be rude overshadowed by the fact that they’d been rendered speechless. The girl with blue hair did not mind the attention; one could even say that she revelled in it a little, that she did feel a tiny bit proud of her ability to astonish. But these days people hardly look at her – indeed, they don’t seem to notice her at all. They just walk right past her, where she stands selling soft toys in aid of charity.

Sunday 11 May 2008

Nude woman in red armchair

She sits in the quiet way of a milky Sunday afternoon – her face still delicately clothed; her thoughts colourless and clear; and then the naked freedom of her body. She sits like a moment of rain that falls suddenly amidst sunshine. Everything softens around her (the red chair, the light, the brushes, your own loud thoughts). How can you (not) paint her?

Wednesday 7 May 2008

The wild girl

Left-wing, left-handed and left to her own devices, the wild girl is always ready to fight for what’s right.

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The wild girl frequently engages in radical acts such as cutting her own hair, recklessly breaking mirrors, and unleashing the power within, around and beyond. (These events are often connected.)

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The wild girl carries her body like a revolutionary flag or a new tattoo. She has a music video walk, a runway run. She looks funky and cool in all manner of t-shirts and footwear.

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The wild girl laughs, sings, cries, farts and thinks out loud. She’s a billboard kind of girl.

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The wild girl can fearlessly down home-brewed distilled beverages and non-bottled water. She likes her herbal tea the way she likes her food: the hotter, the better. (The same goes for sex, of course.)

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The words ‘subversive’ and ‘hard-core’ fail as powerful adjectives when applied to the wild girl.

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The wild girl isn’t actually that wild at all, not in a feral sense at least. All she really wants is to go to Berlin.