Kiki

Kiki

"all I need is an onion, a bit of bread, and a bottle of red [wine]; and I will always find somebody to offer me that."

Under the streetlamped

Paris sky

she was the model she was meant to be

lovechild, baker's brat 

runaway

from  leavened loaves to

high rising loafers,

le violin d'Ingres, playing herself

with a hand drawn catgut bow

resilient as a rubber ball

bounced to dance and sing

for a bottle of red wine

and an onion.

~September 2012

55 French bread crumbs for  the g-man

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Challenge: Out of Standard with Izy

Isadora Gruye extends her bad girl challenge to all comers. This time I have chosen a different rebellious girl.

Process Notes: Kiki de Montparnasse(born Alice Prin) was a singer, actress, memoirist, and an artist's and photographer's model of the DaDa/Surrealist movement of 1920's Paris. You can read her biography here at wikipedia.

The title of the header photo by Man Ray is 'Le violin d'Ingres,' defined by dictionary.com thusly: violon d'Ingres '"an occasional pastime, an activity other than that for which one is well-known, or at which one excels," from Fr., lit. "Ingres' violin," from the story that the great painter preferred to play his violin -- badly -- for visitors instead of showing them his pictures.'

Both images in this post are by the Dada/Surrealist photographer Man Ray, KiKi's companion during her early days as "Queen of Montparnasse." 
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