La jupe courte noire…

Let me tell you guys a little secret. 

Candescently… I look rough. 

This evening I took off my make up and I looked at my face.

Recently, I burned head with a curling iron and there’s an awful brown blemish across my forehead. The bags under my eyes betray the late night drinking binges. My visage is gaunt and pale from the cloudy NY weather. Worst of all, this Saturday morning I work up with A Terrible Stye under my left eye!

And honestly…I haven’t looked this good in years. 

Of course, it doesn’t come that easy. Girls know we have our routines. We shower, shave, apply concealer, flat iron, foundation, blush, mascara, pencil, blush, wardrobe….

And then VAAA-DAAAAA-BAAAAAAAAM!

HOT VIDEO VIXEN.

But, I didn’t have time for that make up crap tonight. There’s just too much going on. Who am I trying to impress running through The City after three job interviews, a full day of classes, last minute homework, grocery shopping yet no real food, gay men in the elevator, and then lots of laundry?

So as I said I took off my make up early. I read for class assignments. I prepared for work. I balanced my check book (ha ha, not really). And then I said fuck it, slipped on my little black skirt, and went out for a drink……..without make up.

What’s funny? It didn’t matter. Even with the terrible scar across my forehead and the bags and The Stye! The same men still flirted. The same men still didn’t care… And so I ask myself…

Do men not really care about all that make up and loveliness?

I got it. You know what it comes down to?

The short black skirt.

De Stijl

When I was watching Pierrot le Fou by Godard I noticed that all of the costume, the set design and background were in Mondrian’s primarily colors.

I studied a bit of Neoplastism in high school, but decided to go back to my old books for a refresher:

Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was a Dutch painter from Holand. Along with his partner Theo van Doesburg, Mondrian founded the De Stijl movement and later the concept of neo-plasticism, one of the earliest and strictest forms of geometric abstract painting. Based on the utopian ideals emerging after World War I, the believed that art and life should merge to directed toward the universal.

We must realize that life and art are no longer separate domains. That is why the “idea” of “art” as an illusion separate from reality life must disappear. The word “art” no longer means anything to us. In its place we demand the construction of our environment in accordance with create laws based upon fixed principle. These laws following those of economics, mathematics, technique, sanitation, ect., are leading to a new plastic unity.

While I rather like this concept, I don’t think I agree with it.  Universal beauty cannot be derived from a fixed set of principles. And I do not think art his higher than reality, art is a subjective reflection of reality. Even art as beauty cannot be summed up in few colors and lines — but I guess the craze for this art proves me wrong. Do we like Mondrian because of the simplicity of this aesthetic design or simply because it has been a style since the 1960s? I think I have my next paper topic.