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Saturday, October 15, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus...New Work & freebies...
Dear Visitors,
To mark the occassion of 500,000 hits on the blog today, i will be giving away a print of my new works and a book by Unica Zurn who was the inspiration for the name of this blog. Many thanks to all the muses, those who visit and to the many with messages of support which keep me inspired! it is very much appreciated!
In Love and Light
Dolorosa
♥!
Names will be picked out of a magick hat! ;) send e-mails with name to me at
mariadolorosadelacruz@dublin.com
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Untitled Watercolour 2011~ Dolorosa a limited edition of 4, A5 size with 1 inch border printed on Hahnemühle FineArt paper
Unica Zürn’s “Dark Spring” is a haunting story about the debilitating confusion a twelve year old can experience when confronted with gender awareness, sexuality and abuse. This particular work is semi-autobiographical and eerily foreshadows the writer’s own suicide by defenestration. A German Surrealist, Zürn was a writer, an artist, and the prototype for Hans Bellmer’s infamous poupée. Although Zürn’s ink drawings are some of the most striking images to evoke the nightmarish figures of a disturbed mind, her writings are even more telling in their descriptions of the mind’s inner workings and how it fares when imprisoned by its own hallucinations. Institutionalized several times throughout her life, Zürn’s work is replete with reflections on mental illness. Even within a state of clinical madness, she is capable of writing about madness as though it were something she were observing, empathizing with it rather than being subjected to it. Zürn reassures her reader she is aware of her craziness, her delusional fabrications, and that she knows there is beauty in this unique state of being. Everything is treated with the same weight, from hallucinations to concrete reality; they are all authentic experiences in the eyes of Zürn.
With the androgynous mind of Coleridge, the incandescent and resonant voice of Woolf, the asexual beauty of a Steiglitz portrait of Georgia O’Keefe, Zürn is the artist who embodies elements of the Two made into One. Layered and multifaceted with androgynous motifs, Zürn’s work speaks with a voice more outspoken and sublime than one may realize at first glance. She annihilates and amalgamates states of being, each treated with as much authenticity as the next; experience seen through the eyes of the many faces of Unica is both feminine and masculine.
from a very good review HERE
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Friday, October 7, 2011
Ex Libris... Dolorosa... 2011 ...Paraphilia ISSUE 12
Have two drawings in the latest Issue of PARAPHILIA Magazine Issue 12
Heather Harris, Dolorosa De La Cruz, Andrew Maben, F.X. Tobin, Matt Leyshon, Aurora Loveday, Díre McCain, Kim Dallesandro, Feral Kelly, dixe.flatlin3, Stagger Lloyd, The Dogs, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Charles Christian, D M Mitchell, Christopher Nosnibor, Guttersaint, Cricket Corleone, Richard A. Meade, Patrick Wright, Michelle Facchini, Max Reeves, Declan Tan, Lisa Wormsley, Gene Gregorits, Robert Earl Reed, Adel Souto, Craig Woods, Nick Louras, Sue Fox, Chris Madoch, Hank Kirton, Richard Reynolds, Kate MacDonald, Bob Pfeifer, Lana Gentry, Claudia Bellocq, Ricardo Acevedo, and David Gionfriddo
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
MURILLO Y VELARDE, TOMÁS DE...ratado de raras, y peregrinas yervas . . . y sus maravillosas virtudes 1674
a work by the physician to King Philip IV of Spain on the qualities and medicinal properties of southernwood, ox-eye camomile, and mandrake.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
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