“We should all start to live before we get too old.
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” — M a r i ly n M o n r o e
Monroe diamond dust pieces
continue to reach new highs
at public auction—his works
have graced the auction
block at Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips de Pury in
both the US and the UK.
“I consider his signature
use of diamond dust as a tactile depiction of the veil that
exists between us as viewers, as consumers of popular
culture, and those who are
products of popular culture,
OnV
or those who are consumed,”
said Justice. “We are influenced by what the diamond
dust represents: luxury,
riches, and notoriety. But
what exists beyond that veil,
the printed portraits of celebrities and historical figures,
is something very different;
something much less tangible and far from glamorous;
something more human.”
Born in 1959 “into the
cold, wet isolation of Northi e w
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