here is a collage i made well over ten years ago, using pieces from various sources. it has too much yellow for my taste, but overall, i think its one of my cooler early ones. the girl in the middle i'm 99.9% sure is notorious ragtime starlet miss evelyn nesbit. rumor has it tycoons used to pay her to swing over them in a red velvet swing, dressed in unreported little outfits. the lurid lovely eyes in the backgroung belong to the one and only rudolph valentino... or, as he was christened in Castellenata, Italy; rudolfo alfonso pierre filibert guglielmi di valentina d' antongulla. with a name like that, how could he have ever been anything less than world-famous? i remember making this piece... i tried slipping several pairs of eyes in the overhead space. i had it down to two that really had an impact; rudolph valentino's... and adolph hitler's. both were equally striking, but in the end Love won over Hate, and the honors went to The Sheik.
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