Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw

Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw

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Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw
Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw
HAUTE CONVALESCENCE

HAUTE CONVALESCENCE

at the waxing Rose Moon

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Jun 14, 2024
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A digital collage using an old photo of a dance where white men and women formally dance in couples in a large, bright room with big windows. Over this, a sunset sky has been laid, with surreal figures of a tentacled deaths head in a poncho, and a lightbulb woman in victorian dress as well as a peacock in a frock
Digital collage using an image of the post-Dior show party in Perthshire, 1955.

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