Blue Velvet Magnet

A friend nominated me to do the 10 day movie challenge on Instagram which had a simple directive: post an image, no explanation, from 10 movies that had an impact on me. I decided to draw mine and transform them into Victorian inspired patterns. My favorite films feature outsiders, outlaws, wierdos, inverts, eccentrics, romantics, bon vivants, and rebels. Films that spoke to the queer and camp sensibility brewing inside me long before I knew who or what I was. Films that I still quote and reference to this day with ease. Films that spoke to the person I was becoming or longed to be. Films that made me me. These films are always playing in the background of my mind because their surprising (and sometimes shocking) themes, characters, and ...