tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815742240138457224.post7130996862605005231..comments2011-05-16T00:08:47.509-04:00Comments on Film. Fashion. Snark.: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815742240138457224.post-36795866756279792882010-04-02T01:49:57.204-04:002010-04-02T01:49:57.204-04:00A young person dying before her time has elements ...A young person dying before her time has elements of tragedy in the event. Her death itself is not the tragedy; it is the life before the death and the relationships she had with those around her. How did all the strings come together at exactly the wrong moment...This brings me to Alexander McQueen. <br /><br />Incredible genius comes at the cost of emotional instability. Depression, drug abuse, fixations on the macabre. Run-of-the-mill suicide. <br /><br />It is painful to keep the creative head attached to its body; the emotions preferring to run out and into the world in violent streaks of red, of loud electric yellow fireworks no longer suppressing that singular joy. Look down and you see the emotions that have escaped as a slowly dripping paint, though never losing their whole and refusing to dry until the right time has passed. The paint will know. These are just the emotions. What about the unconscious mind? And the conscious mind that believes itself in charge? (It's not.) All the while my head exploded. Yet I am here. Ink splash on the computer screen. Paint dripping down my back. The smoke of fireworks spent linger around the haze of my aftershock. <br /><br />Alexander McQueen had all this chaos and haze in his head. Sometimes they could work together, other times the emotional haze would cloud his vision. <br /><br />A lifetime of build-ups and bottle-ups, of freely-given criticisms. One day something seems out of place. Someone said something. A reminder. Or an event. Not just one, buy many until finally all it takes is a mundane detail, but you snap. <br /><br />May you rest in Peace, Alexander McQueen.<br /><br />And to all those out there who are geniuses in your own way: There is a way to live in harmony and that is for you to figure out. We aren't fond of our artists dying young.scribbleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09895162346431000753noreply@blogger.com