Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Dorothy Parker: Tribute to a Witty Demise

Dorothy Parker: Tribute to a Witty Demise; brass, nuGold, vintage typewriter keys, #2 pencil, steel pin-stem wire.
Carolyn Buss
2012


Dorothy Parker: Tribute to a Witty Demise; brass, nuGold, vintage typewriter keys, #2 pencil, steel pin-stem wire.
Carolyn Buss
2012


       After reading about Dorothy Parker's life and also her work, I wanted to make a piece which talked about how Dorothy Parker lived her life.  She drank, was part of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of writers and artists who ate lunch together, drank together and worked together, hung out with men without an escort or her husband around. Her wit was what allowed her to be accepted into such a group; this wit was something she grew up with, something she never outgrew.
     Although she was published, talented and popular, she was not happy.  Drinking and depressed, she had tried to kill herself two confirmed times, and supposedly a few more. Excuse My Dust is something she joked about having put on her tombstone once with a colleague; there is now a plaque with her name and those words on it.  

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