... and the name is Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe.
Since doing my Charlie Chaplin page in the early days I have been wanting to do something using Marilyn Monroe, and my Janet Klein images in particular. Not only that but I sent for a Texture Fades folder which I had had my eye on for such a long time, and I wanted to use the letters from that also. So how could I marry the two together?
First of all I had this page left abandoned when I had repeated it on another page, but in my large Dylusion Journal. To cut down making a new background I decided to use it and began playing around with the Texture Fades folder. I had several pieces of black cardstock that I had sprayed with water and run through the folder - that gave a really strong impression and when it dried the texture was almost like an egg box, holding its shape really well. I got my waxes out and found a silver and a pewter one which I decided I wanted to use because I wanted them to resemble the keys that sit in the basket of a typewriter - the bits that pop up and hit the ribbon.
Next thing was to cut out the letters I wanted to spell out Marilyn's name. Once that was done I had to play about deciding how to display them and thought of the shape of the basket on the typewriter and I tried to replicate that. In the end I used a can on my desk to give me a circular shape and put the keys up to the edges of it, glued them down and waited for them to dry.
I had an image of a typewriter, stamped, embossed and cut out so that became my centrepiece with a Marilyn either side. Why use two Marilyns? Simply because I could not decide which to use and which not. I was sure that there is a scene or a photograph somewhere where she stands over a grid and the air is blowing her dress up, here's hoping my memory is correct in that the dress in question is white.
To complete my page I looked for some quotes from her and settled on the shortest one I could find, typed it out, printed it and inserted it under the bail bar of the typewriter. It reads "We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle." And there you have it - my page for today - typewriter keys for the theme and a couple of types of images for Marilyn Monroe. See you over at Art Journal Journey, maybe with your interpretation of 'type' or just to see what others have done.
