Gallery of the Absurd

Phantom of the Rear View Mirror

After a series of photos were taken of Courtney Love emerging from a dark limousine, tabloids and bloggers were quick to point out her ghostly appearance. The always upbeat Daily Mail claimed frightened onlookers "drew gasps" over her ghoulish "deathly pale skin" and painfully thin frame. Commentary across the gossip blogs were nearly unanimous in deriding Courtney for her "bride of Frankenstein" pallor and "crack addict" body.

While the photographs do indeed suggest that Courtney might do well to put a little meat on her bones, I found them to be stunningly gorgeous. Courtney's alabaster skin appears to glow against the inky darkness that surrounds her almost as though she's her own light source. The ragged, see-thru lace gown suggests an elegant faded glory even though it looks like something yanked down off grandma's curtain rod. The eye can't help to be drawn to the saturated crimson red of her cartoon lips as they provide the only spot of color in the photograph. Bravo to the photographer who captured the essence of Courtney Love's erratic personality. I know many won't agree with me here, but I'd much rather see a real and slightly crazy human being in a see-thru dress than a bunch of vapid wooden-posed air-heads with see-thru personalities. Medium: Gouache, acrylic, iridescent glitter on paper with a touch of photoshop. Painted as a gift for my friend Chrissa.

No One is Lining Up at the Courtney Love Kissing Booth

Courtney Love's lips were the subject of recent scandal after she was caught arriving at a London nightclub "sans makeup, unwittingly revealing her scabbed mouth and spotty skin" to a group of waiting photographers. The report called Courtney a "shadow of her former self" and claimed that even though she quickly tried to spackle her scabs and blemishes with a "heavy-duty coating of make-up", it did little to "hide her freakish appearance." Glaring close-up photos of Courtney's blistered lips are splashed throughout the article and as if they didn't get their point across enough, they've included an enlarged image of her swollen lips so you may observe the disconcerting crustiness in greater pixilated detail (click the first photo to see what I mean). I thought how awful it would feel to be publicly scrutinized like that and yet at the same time, I visualized Courtney standing in a carnival kissing booth, pop-eyed and confused as to why the crowds were avoiding her. Medium: ink on paper, digital color/text.

Courtney Love Exposes Her Body and Mind

Courtney Love's Latest MySpace Blog Entry
Friday, August 17, 2007

im in new issue of harpers bizarre. stripped bare except for diamond necklace. sorry, NOT a pearl necklace, this isn't penthouse, u dirty pigs. heh. shot by the ponytialed prince of cool himself Karl Lagerfeld. me and lagerfeld. lagerfeld and me. take THAT and stuf it in ur L.A.M.B. Stefani! heh.this is in now way a response to alleged reports on blogs an dibn tabloids that my body looks "airbrushed" (where there actually was hardly any). my body looks damn good. thesse accusations of airbrushed things beyond my thighs and boobs and abs and face are crap. drinking 8 ensures a day, tons of antioxidents and good stuff plus carbs GOOD casrbs and its made my cheeks and mouth not so sunken, and THATS why my body look younger than my daughters. hear that cuddle bear sweeetoe pie Rossdale? im a REAL woman, well except my nose and lips which im gonna RESTORE to NATURAL, who uses antioxidents and colonics to lose the weight and look seXXXy, unlike a cert[ain hollaback girl whos a bulimic liar just like the rest of them. broccoli and fish my asss. so if u get tired of being with a chick who lies and very mucbh wants to be p[opular abnd accepted, wants be trendy but not dangerous, then u know where to find me. ill be waiting. just hanging out, eating sprinkles cupcakes and burning sum of those stupid overrpriced sportsacs heh. okay, im gonna delete this post, im not biting that shittty bait from the blogs an dibn tabloids. right after I detox and have a pack of ciggies.

Cork

Post written Courtney Love-style by Candy of Holy Candy. Medium: Watercolor, colored pencil on paper.

Where Has Courtney Been Hiding?

I miss the sporadic insanities of Courtney Love and wonder what sort of trouble she'll get into next.