So usually I cease at property gross sales and produce dwelling unusual, haunting issues that I don’t actually need however that I can’t go away behind…particularly on Sundays when a lot has been picked over and a lot will find yourself tossed within the rubbish if it doesn’t promote.
At this time was a kind of days. And I introduced dwelling these massive, battered however poignant artwork items that aren’t actually my type however that I can’t cease desirous about. Partially as a result of they’re remarkably carried out, however distinctive like self-taught outsider artwork…and partially as a result of I think they had been all carried out by a affected person in a psychological hospital 70 years in the past.
This one is watercolor. The title is in Spanish however interprets to “Ready for electrical shock remedy (E.S.T). It (like all of them) is by somebody known as “L Perea” (I feel) and is from 1952.
This one is pen and ink and appears to be of an asylum or establishment:
It’s signed “L Perea, April ’55”
This can be a massive watercolor:
The writing says “The Dipsy Doodle – We would like every little thing neat and clear and tidy and orderly and sanitary and sterile. Some V.I.P.s are coming over on an inspection tour—and oh, sure! One other factor—look blissful – that’s orders.”
There’s no date on this one. I’d by no means heard of the dipsy doodle earlier than but it surely was an previous track, apparently. The lyrics:
The dipsy doodle is the factor to beware
The dipsy doodle will get in your hair
And if it will get you, it could not be worse
The stuff you say will come out in reverse
Like "You're keen on I and me love you!"
That is the best way the dipsy doodle works.
You may't eat, you may't sleep. You go loopy.
You are only a sufferer of the dipsy doodle
And it is not your thoughts that is hazy
It is your coronary heart that is at fault - not your noodle.
You higher pay attention and attempt to be good
And attempt to do all of the issues that you need to
The dipsy doodle will get you some day
And when it will get you the issues you'll say
Just like the moon jumped over the cow - hey diddle!
That is the best way the dipsy doodle works.This one, which is pen and ink and really eerie:
The title is in french however I feel it interprets to “The person, what is that this?” September ’53
And this one, a watercolor:
The entrance says “The Searchlight – I didn’t notice how essential it’s not to inform the reality – till it was too late.”
On the again it has extra written however I can’t inform precisely what:
” …and after Ray threw the (indecipherable) at me I advised the reality – in order that they put me in right here.” 1952
I attempted to search out the artist on-line, hopeful that perhaps afterward she (I assume it’s a she since she attracts different girls largely) obtained out and was found and located a life in artwork…however I can’t discover something.
And perhaps that’s all that’s left. Nevertheless it breaks my coronary heart…perhaps as a result of I’m additionally a self-taught artist who makes use of my drawings and writing to search out escape from this usually damaged thoughts. As a result of tonight I’m fasting as a result of tomorrow I’ll be on the clinic getting IV infusions of ketamine to attempt to deal with my treatment-resistant melancholy. As a result of I do know that I may have been her so simply. As a result of I had household myself who died in locations like that and had been forgotten.
I suppose indirectly I would like her to be seen, even when we don’t know her identify or the place she ended up. Perhaps somebody with higher expertise can discover out what occurred to her. Or if not, we will a minimum of take a look at the story she left behind along with her artwork…the tales of so many individuals who by no means obtained to inform theirs.
