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INVOCATION OF MY IDOLS
Portraits of my cultural icons & idols
Music • film • art • cult figures
Who will be invoked next?
Open to commissions!

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LAURA PALMER/SHERYL LEE!!!

Dear Diary,
Undated
I know who he is. I know exactly who and what BOB is, and I have to tell everyone. I have to tell someone and make them believe.
Someone has torn pages out of my diary, pages that help me realize maybe... pages with my poems, pages of writing, private pages.
I’m so afraid of death.
I’m so afraid that no one will believe me until after I have taken the seat that I fear has been saved for me in the darkness. Please don’t hate me. I never meant to see the small hills and the fire. I never meant to see him or let him in.
Please, Diary, help me explain to everyone that I did not want what I have become. I did not want to have certain memories and realizations of him. I only did what any of us can do, in any situation...
My very best.
Love, Laura
P.S. I’m giving you to Harold for safekeeping. I hope I see you again. I can’t stay sober anymore. I just can’t. I have to be numb.
THE PRECEDING WAS LAURA’S LAST ENTRY. SHE WAS FOUND DEAD JUST DAYS LATER.

From the amazing “Secret Diary of Laura Palmer” by Jennifer Lynch, big thanks to @kkbbcollective for recommending it to me!

#laurapalmer #SherylLee #TwinPeaks #DavidLynch #FireWalkWithMe by @invocationofmyidols

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BAZ BRODIE

The AMAZING & FLAWLESS BAZ Brodie aka @sirsilicone What an absolute joy to draw!

AMMUNITION LITERATURE *
Devour beauty, 1 am its scab
Fatalistic androgyne
Spasmodic neurasthenic
Scabrous and syntectic
Everything is

#androgynous #alternativestyle #90saesthetic #gothguy #90sgoth by @invocationofmyidols

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13 days ago

RIP Dolly Parton. I’m completely devastated. Goodbye dear Dolly, you were the absolute best ❤️ #rip #dollyparton #dolly #ripdollyparton #iwillalwaysloveyou by @invocationofmyidols

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2 months ago

CHARLI XCX

Charli XCX is THE pop star of our times!

#charlixcx #brat #charlixcxart #xcx #charlixcxfans by @invocationofmyidols

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NINA HAGEN

“I don’t have to try to be outrageous. I am outrageous.”
Nina Hagen!

#ninahagen #berlinpunk #punkrockmusic #punkrock #womenofpunk by @invocationofmyidols

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BRIAN MOLKO!!

I cannot underestimate the profound effect of seeing this beautiful man on Top of the Pops had on me! Oh my heart!

#brianmolko #placebo #placeboworld #brianmolkoforever #placebofans by @invocationofmyidols

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NICK ZEDD & MONICA CASANOVA

“Nick Zedd makes violent, perverted art films from Hell, he’s my kind of director!” John Waters

“There will be blood, shame, pain and ecstasy, the likes of which no one has yet imagined”, shouted Nick Zedd. The year was 1985 and the climate in New York was turbulent. Spawned from No Wave cinema and music, the Cinema of Transgression coined by Zedd aimed to outrage and violate morals and sensibilities, not pushing, but breaking with whatever boundaries it found. The term transgressive itself was first used by Zedd to describe his legacy with revolutionary filmmakers Kenneth Anger, Paul Morrissey and John Waters, and underground was the movement’s way of life and aspiration.”
Bruna Volpi in Dazed and Confused Magazine

This was an absolute joy to draw from start to finish!
I’ve recently been talking to Monica over Instagram and she is an incredible person with THE best stories, oh I’ve loved listening to them!!

#nickzedd #monicacasanova #cinemaoftransgression #deathrock #undergroundcinema by @invocationofmyidols

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7 days ago

ELIZABETH TAYLOR

“I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife.”
Elizabeth Taylor

“Elizabeth Taylor is a creation of show business, within which she has lived since she began as a child star.
She has the hyper-reality of a dream vision. Meryl Streep, with her boring decorum, is welcome to her pose of unpretentious working actor. l’Il take trashy, glitzy Old Hollywood any day. Elizabeth Taylor, heartily eating, drinking, lusting, laughing, cursing, changing husbands and buying diamonds by the barrel, is a personality on the grand scale ... Earthy and sensual, passionate and wilful, yet tender and empathetic, Elizabeth Taylor is woman in her many lunar phases, admired by all the world.”
Camille Paglia on Elizabeth Taylor in Penthouse Magazine

#oldhollywood #elizabethtaylor #classicfilmstars #classicmoviestars #oldmoviestars by @invocationofmyidols

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TURA SATANA

“Spend any time around Tura Satana and you can’t help but fall under her spell. One whiff of that perfume, (Luna Mystique, if you must know) and you’re a goner, my friend. She’s got a smoky, mischievous chuckle that says life’s a game and the deck’s been marked, so we might as well laugh. Satana still gets a kick out of life and enjoys kicking it back. There’s something noble about Tura. She slugged her way through years of gin mills and flesh pits with nary a dent to her dignity.”

From Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer by Jimmy McDonough

#TuraSatana #tura #russmeyer #fasterpussycatkillkill #cultcinema by @invocationofmyidols

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LYDIA LUNCH

“Fingers move fingers / My wrists made of satin / Don’t be afraid of what’s gonna happen / Elbows to ankles my fists out of place / I turn around backwards and off slides my face ..” From “Mechanical Flattery” by Lydia Lunch

#lydialunch #newyorknowave #postpunkicon #gothicon #gothpoet by @invocationofmyidols

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ISABELLA ROSSELLINI!!!

“When you come out of the theatre after seeing David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, you certainly know that you’ve seen something. You
Isabella Rossellini doesn’t show anything like the acting technique that her mother, Ingrid Bergman, had, but she’s willing to try things, and she doesn’t hold back. Dorothy is a dream of a freak. Walking around her depressing apartment in her black bra and scanties, with blue eye-shadow and red high heels, she’s a woman in distress right out of the pulps; she has the plushy, tempestuous look of heroines who are described as “bewitching.” (She even has the kind of nostrils that cover artists can represent accurately with two dots.) Rossellini’s accent is useful: it’s part of Dorothy’s strangeness. And Rossellini’s echoes of her mother’s low voice help to place this kitschy seductress in an unreal world. She has a special physical quality, too. There’s nothing of the modern American woman about her. When she’s naked, she’s not protected, like the stars who are pummelled into shape and lighted to show their muscular perfection. She’s defenselessly, tactilely naked, like the nudes the Expressionists painted.”

From Pauline Kaels review of ‘Blue Velvet’ from the New Yorker 1986

#isabellarossallini
#bluevelvet
#davidlynch
#dorothyvallens
#lynchian by @invocationofmyidols

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21 days ago

BELGIUM SOLANAS!!!

It’s the amazing Belgium Solanas! I loved drawing Belgium who’s one of the best and funniest drag queens around!!

#drag #belgiumsolanas #dragart #dragicon #kkbbcollective by @invocationofmyidols

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