In this piece I focused on the painting and the colors. I began with a photograph of Marilyn Monroe and a few collage elements. Starting with a lighter purple for the background I continued with different shades of blacks, whites and grays. The translucent wave falling from the upper left and ending in the lower middle of the board is a long ribbon of folded Acrylic Acetate. I hot glued it on then gave it some black splatters of paint. Since the Acrylic Acetate and the film strips (upper right) have the same glossy texture, I saw them both as stories each telling the level of fame in different parts of her life. I heard once that Marilyn was in porn films before she was in bigger films. The Acrylic Acetate represents the quality of her adult films; they were messy, uneven and unsophisticated. The film strips above her head represent the quality of the big films we all recognize her in; they were clean cut and higher class. Maybe the black drips show her attempts to put some fame and recognition into her earlier career as a porn star. She could only get a few splats onto the film.
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