Introducing this blog, and a positive aspect of Marilyn Monroe’s commericialism

I’ve been engaged in research/an all-encompassing artistic endeavor on Marilyn Monroe for the past year or so. I never expected that Marilyn, of all people, would draw me in so thoroughly and completely. Part of this blog will be documentation of this research, and my artistic progress. Also, most likely part of this blog will also just be babble. One of the questions I get most often is “Why Marilyn Monroe?” I wish there was a way for me to conciencsely answer this question, but because of the profound impact she’s had on me…there isn’t.

For now, and for starters, here is one snitbit of one of the facets of Marilyns affect on me.

Marilyn Monroe is a constant. I’ve lost a mother, a brother, a cousin, friend, but Marilyn was never alive in my lifetime to lose. I have never had to deal with her image being removed from a household, and having to search deep emotional pockets in my brain to conjure up a memory of his/her image. Marilyn is everywhere. Forty-seven years and her ‘existence’ seems even more permanent. When life feels fleeting and chaotic, Marilyn’s image remains my glimmering constant….on t-shirts, purses, magazines, buildings, museums, on the tv, and most importantly…in my own mind.