I met a fascinating artist, designer, model, writer and performer tonight at Terrie Silverman’s Gorgeous Stories show at Beyond Baroque in Venice.
I’m performing tomorrow night at the same place.
Nicole Strafaci operates CollagePhilosophy.com: “I have always been greatly influenced by books. Literature, biographies, and some contemporary fiction have provided endless hours of enjoyment and education. Some of my favorites: Hermann Hesse, Truman Capote, John Updike, Henry Miller, Anais Nin and Collette. Visual art, lacking in verbal expression is complete for me when I read, as I enjoy connecting visual and verbal ideas. Discovering my love of collage in college and in my mother’s vintage business, I also found a magical story By Anais Nin. Nin, also loved collage in both its physical and psychological dimension. Her diaries and autobiographical fiction combined and recombined thoughts and poetry in a continuous, complex cycle. Known to the masses as a writer of poetic erotica, she was more importantly an independent thinker, a philosopher, and an artist. “Collage Philosophy,” is a tribute to her for uniting my visual and literary worlds. In Nin’s “Ragtime,” a man walks the streets collecting a wild assortment of broken objects.”
Last night I met a nude model who designed clothes. Talk about the complete package! So many times in my life I’ve met women who excelled at taking clothes off while other women I knew excelled at putting them on. Now I’ve met one who does it all. Any assistance I can render her will bring me a share of her mitzvos of clothing the naked! Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I’ll dwell in the House of the Lord forever.
