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                                             August 04, 2010

I introduced "Unicorn Wings" in

   MEN_OF_THE_WEST

And I must say I have trouble
thinking of what cryptic comments
I might want to make about her at
this distance, on the now
all-too universal world wide web.

  As mentioned, in the early 70s, she
  tried to up-hold the honor of the         During that period she liked the
  fading hippie dream, believing in an      Unicorn motif, and did it up with
  ideal of "being a loving person".         some impressive metal-work.

  In the later 70s and early-80s, she
  was much more in the thick of the               One way of understanding
  East Village scene than I was.                  "punk" was that it was
                                                  a reaction to the hippie
      She described a friend of her's as          movement of the 60s--
      a "real punk", because he refused           if peace and love bothered
      to say hello to people "because             you, well, how do you like
      he thought it was bullshit".                *this*.

                                                                    PUNK
          I once overheard someone talking about
          the local talent-- who didn't realize I
          knew Unicorn Wings, comment:

          "There aren't any *real artists* in this
          school.  Well, except for *maybe*--"


          Her dad was certainly a Real Artist by any standard,
          doing a lot of brilliant sculptural work in wood.

          This was clearly both a blessing and a curse, for
          her personally: on the one hand, she had a lot of      A fairly
          exposure to the arts and the arts world to draw on,    common
          but on the other hand she had intense pressure on      syndrome,
          her to do it the Right Way                             I gather.

          She once told me about a time when she was a kid,
          when she had just painted her room, and on impulse
          she decided to start doing hand-prints all over the
          door to her room.  When her father saw this he got
          furiously angry and started ranting "you will
          *never* be a *real* artist!"



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