Original Painting, Not for sale

36”x48” acrylic and oil stick on canvas (2025)

Death of a Party Girl #1 and #2 are a series of paintings based on film photographs taken by myself and friends during the year we all worked together at a vintage store in downtown Guelph, ON Canada. This was a community of loud, bold and queer folks in flux. We used the access to vintage clothing to experiment with our identities as Y2K princesses, 90s club kids, black cats and disco queens. We went out at night, once we closed the vintage store, in snake skin pants, velvet mini skirts, and leather corsets. The garments became a means of freedom, a shield for a night. We eventually split from the store, left with a wardrobe of necessities. The snake skin, corsets and pink leathers were the first to go. We sold our freedom costumes back to the store. Those clothes now hang and wait for the next person to fill them out. My party girls faded away, but my collection of photographs solidifies who they were for a brief moment.