Elegy for Isabella Blow, 2008
Isabella Blow died on May 7, 2007. She committed suicide. I never met her. I admired her from afar; I have no idea what I would have said to her if we’d been in the same room. I am a fairly reserved person, Isabella Blow seemed to be anything but reserved (though she said in interviews that she was shy). Her death made me very sad.
Ferocious Bonbons, 2003
Night Revelry at the Establishment of Madame Deyrolle, 2000
Teratology (A Sideshow), 1996
Teratology: invented in the nineteenth century, by Etienne and Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, teratology is a now seldom-used term for the study of human monsters. Monsters was also a term used by the medical profession to describe people afflicted by a wide variety of conditions, including dwarves, giants, hermaphrodites, Siamese twins, midgets, and men and women born without arms and or legs.