Marilyn is haunting me and I’m feeling melancholic…
Earlier this year it was Audrey Hepburn now it’s Marilyn Monroe that is ‘haunting me’, or rather she just ‘pops up’ whether I’m in a Charity Shop, boot fair, shopping centre or antique market. The images here are just skimming the surface. Apart from Marilyn appearing before me on a regular basis at present…from a child I always found her ‘haunting’ why?
I admit I’m feeling ‘blue’…
Well I knew she died young and that was tragic, there was always something fragile/broken/innocent about her that drew me in. It was like her facade, her beauty masked a much deeper self and one that to me hid her pain, though she was able to represent and show her vulnerability which shows great strength and through this I think she reached and connected with her audience.
A couple of the Marilyn bags I found…
It just wasn’t about how she looked, though that drove her career and was ultimately the cause of the downfall? I won’t speculate…as it’s not ‘my place’ and I’m not a ‘Monroe expert’, but she lives on whether in a framed picture, on a bag, advert, (I don’t ‘approve’…) product, sticker, box you name it she could be on it and there’s always a mystery and sadly an undiscovered fascination of a life cut short and what could’ve been. Yes maybe I’m feeling blue…the Autumn has set in and for a number reasons I’m feeling melancholic…sometimes you just can’t avoid pain no matter how hard you may try to distract yourself to ‘escape’ it…sadly…it’s part of life and just not always possible to run from though wish I could…
that infamous dress 3 different times…