“I used to get a hard time from the administrators about my tattoos and my hair and my pants being rolled up,” she says. “But I didn’t want to be like anyone else… I had no role models when I was growing up. This, I think, shows kids it’s okay to be different. It ...
But preemptive mirroring is also common; where in parochial Australian art communities you can hear about how PhDs changed hands and suddenly Valerie’s showing work utilising identical ceramics techniques, enter any writer’s workshop and they will tell you, with a certain deflated candour, that...
Obviously, the use of venom carries with it serious risks; those who find themselves allergic can easily succumb to anaphylactic shock. 10. Tittooing This one takes masochism to extremes rarely imagined. A few decades ago, the vast majority of those sporting tattoos were bikers and sailors, ou...
I wished we could have had her for much longer than the six weeks she was with us in the heart of Borneo, volunteering for primate orphans, as she did in Africa, always lovingly giving whatever she could contribute. From the Netherlands she helped us with donations to build better quarantin...