100 Ways To Be A Good Girl - Limited Edition of 1 Artwork

100 Ways To Be A Good Girl. This is a portrait of Deborah Anne Dyer alias Skin, the front woman of the band Skunk Anansi. My first introduction to Skin and Skunk Anansi was in 1995 as she performed her song Weak. A tall, black, and bald female singer appears. Her exterior is slender, bold and feminine, armed with a fantastic voice. “Lost in time I can’t count the words I said when I thought they went unheard All of those harsh thoughts so unkind ‘Cause I wanted you’.“ Her sound is cautious and delicate at first until, after 45 seconds, a hurricane hits you. “Weak as I am, no tears for you Weak as I am, no tears for you Deep as I am, I’m no one’s fool Weak as I am” As how I interpret this song, is that love makes vulnerable. Thus, getting hurt is part of the game. Is it? I was 26 years old and stood with one leg in what my life used to be while the other leg stepped into a new era. That era for me meant a choice for becoming an independent artist and becoming a working inhabitant and participant in a squatted school building in Zwolle. Here I created the base for my art practice.. In 1996, I also left my lover after 7 years relation and a new but complicated love entered my life. The song Weak was, proverbial spoken, about me. I will not go into detail but I can reveal a little. I did choose to encounter everything to come fearless and with an open mind. This open mind to new developments around me, new friends and adventures and the impact of this relation made that my ‘weakness’ was totally at the surface. But I did not allow it to be there. I ignored this voice of the inner me. So my open mind became an open nerve. Of the same album Paranoid and Sunburnt is the track ‘100 Ways To Be A Good Girl’. A song with the same moderation and rage combined to a brilliant intense musical roller coaster. “I caused a major war just by talking You flew into a rage, cos that’s everything you know”. These lyrics seem pure and autobiographic. It’s raw and poetic. A song impregnated with sorrow but filled with self-reflection at the same time. “I know 100 Ways To Be A Good Girl I know 100 ways, my willingness top lease I know 100 Ways To Be A Good Girl Still I’m alone, I’m alone, and I’m alone” “The willingness to please’ was also about me. When I landed in a burn-out/depression, 1999/2000, I did some soul searching. One of the conclusions I made was that I drifted too far from my core. It took me a while but I reclaimed it. The Good Girl, she knew 100 ways to be good to others, but not one to be good for herself. Now, 2020, I never stopped learning to understand life and the needs of my inner me. This journey will never be complete but I can say that I feel in sync with work, life, and love. Maybe one of the benefits of getting older To me Skin was of a role model: feminine but firm Vulnerable but resilient. That is why she is no.08 in my Heroes series.

Mixed Media:New Media on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:47.2 W x 31.5 H x 0.8 D in

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